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Simply put: The ghetto, both in peacetime and in wartime was a symbol of how the Jew was extricated from mainstream society and humiliated by being forced to live in undesirable districts without sufficient room to raise their families.

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What kind of things did they have in a ghetto?

The ghetto was a sad and dreary place for the oppressed Jewish people. The ghetto had many fires, no food, coal mines, diamond mines, shoe shopes, and watchmaking shops.


Were ghettos the same as death camps?

No, a ghetto is not nearly as bad as a death camp. At a death camp, people would be deliberately starved, tortured, fenced in, and killed by their captors. A ghetto is bad, but it's not nearly as bad as a death camp. A ghetto is/was just a place where the people are impoverished and the crime rates are high. People are still oppressed and ill-treated and frequently hungry in ghettos, and it's sad, but they're not literally fenced in and aren't there for the sole purpose of being tortured or killed.


What does that mean oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever?

When King states "oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever" in his letter from Birmingham, he is stating that there is hope for his people. He presents himself as determined and trustworthy by having a plan- nonviolent protests.


How many people were killed in the Lvov ghetto in the Holocaust?

Over 150,000 people died in the Ghetto.


Are ghetto people smart?

Ghetto simply means a poor area from where a lot of people of the same background live. Ghetto people are unfairly characterized as stupid when it is just a mere stereotype. In fact many smart people are from the ghetto like tesla and Obama


How do you use oppressed in a sentence?

"The Polish people were historically oppressed under neighboring empires." "The principal oppressed the faculty with his constant criticism and bullying."


Can you put the word oppressed in a sentence?

Many times, a people has been a oppressed by an unfair ruler.


How many people are in a Ghetto?

A Ghetto is not a unit of measurement, they were as small as a few dozen people, and as large as 200, 000.


Why do ghetto Pakistanis act black?

The phrase "act black" is loaded with the association of blacks with ghettos, but not all blacks live in a ghetto and not all people in ghettos are black. Thus, what you are really asking is, "Why do people who live in a ghetto act like people who live in a ghetto?"


Do people get beat up by ghetto people?

no


Who are the important people in black history?

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Who are important people in black history?

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