Warsaw and Lodz.
There were two ghettos in Sighet (in Night).
geography
ghettos and camps were two different things.
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in world war 2, after Germany invaded pland in 1939, more than two million polish Jews came under German control, and were eventuly forced in to what the Germans called "ghettos"or"Jewish residential quarters."The Germans created more than 400 ghettos in occupied territories. But the biggest ghettos was in Warsaw, the polish capital, where almost half a million Jews were confied, and killed.
The inhabitants of the two ghettos in Sighet, including the Wiesel family, were deported to Auschwitz in 1944.
Most ghettos were separated from the surrounding areas by high walls and barbed-wire fences, which were patrolled. Jews were not allowed outside the ghettos (unless they had a special pass, which was very seldom given). A few, smaller ghettos were not completely separated from the surrounding areas in the early stages and Jews were able to leave for an hour or two a day.In many ghettos the Jews were not allowed to have ordinary, legal tender money, only special ghetto money. So, even if they managed to get out, their money was worthless outside.In the case of the Warsaw Ghetto, there were several small workshops, which made goods that were smuggled out and bartered for food and materials for further batches of goods. Some of the smuggling was done by small children (under age 7). There was a cemetery where the fencing was weak, and the hope was that the guards would think the kids were just playing some game ...
It is not possible, not is it right to compare suffering. But two groups who found it hardest in the ghettos were the rich Jews and the foreign Jews. Before moving to the ghettos over half of Poland's Jews already lived below the poverty line and had learned many of the methods and skills required to survive on next to nothing. When the rich Jews were sent to the ghettos they found themselves immediately the targets of those who would profit from them, and soon found themselves liberated of their wealth in a society that they were not prepared for. Similarly the foreign Jews had to assimilate into an already established society.
The Nazi ghettos for Jews were mainly in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and other parts of Eastern Europe. In 1939-40 German Jews in most larger cities were forced to move into 'Jewish' appartment blocks, which were marked as such with a large J above all entrances. In most of Nazi Germany itself Jews were not put into ghettos in the sense of walled in areas. The Nazis know that that would lead to too many questions from ordinary Germans.
The main problem with ghettos that affected health was excessive over-crowding. Also, the lack of clean, running water also affected health.
In WWII, going into the Holocaust, Jews were first sent to nearby major cities where ghettos were established, then they were sent to Poland, to the ghettos there and/or to concentration camps to be used as labour and eventually to an extermination centre where they were executed.
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