Jewish Ghettos were run-down parts of major cities in which an excessive number of Jews would be packed into a very small, unsanitary space.
They are called 'Jewish ghettos', they were used to house Jews (and gypsies).
There was no symbol for them.
to seperate jewish populations from german or non jewish populations
do you mean the areas in Germany used for housing the Polish workers? there were no ghettos for gentile Poles in Poland, only Jewish ghettos.
The Siddur is the Jewish prayerbook.
They were used as a solution to the Jewish problem. Initailly they were used to murder the Jews trapped in the Ghettos, then to kill all Jews under the Nazi yoke.
Traditional ghettos were seen as permanent places for Jews to live (separated from the rest of the population). The Nazis, on the other hand, saw the ghettos as temporary - as staging posts in the Final Solution. The last 'traditional' Jewish ghetto - that in Rome - had been opened (liberated) in 1870. The Nazis reintroduced ghettos for Jews in Poland, Lithuania and Latvia in 1939-41 and deliberately kept the food and water supplies inadequate.
The Torah is the Jewish Holy Book.
to keep track of where they was at
ghettos were used to contain Jews and other stereotypical "dirty people", deemed by Hitler and his soilders. Ghettos kept the "clean people" away from the "dirty" people.
No, cigarettes is not the code name for Jewish escapes in the book "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry. The code name used in the book is "Daniels."
Jewish ghettos originated long ago, as early as the 1400's. Generally, Europeans were Christian and anti-Semitic, so the Jews lived in their own communities/ghettos as a result of discrimination and for their safety. During World War II, the Nazis took the Jews from their homes and placed them in ghettos, the most famous of which being the Warsaw ghetto, in Poland. The Jews were told to appoint leaders of the community. Many leaders of the various ghettos refused to give Nazis lists when they learned these lists were being used to send Jews to death camps. While living in ghettos, the Jews were isolated and often had limited resources (though items were smuggled).