Certainly. It depends on the ghetto, but several ghettos, especially the Warsaw Ghetto erupted in violence in response the Nazi deportations to the Concentration Camps. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising, led by Mordecai Anielewicz, took five weeks for the German soldiers to suppress the revolt (which was longer than it took for German soldiers to overrun the entire country of Poland).
The largest Jewish ghettos were in Poland, where the largest Jewish populations were, but there were ghettos across eastern Europe.
to seperate jewish populations from german or non jewish populations
The Jewish ghettos were sections of the city that were allocated specifially for Jewish housing.
Jewish ghettos did not maintain medical records.
Ghettos are dating back to 15th centuries and Europe. They definitely weren't what they are today, but they were like isolated neighbourhoods. There were Jewish ghettos, where Jewish traders lived and worked, all kinds of them. They didn't start as scary black neighbourhoods, but as normal parts of cities.
ghettos, or Jewish Quarters.
1933
They are called 'Jewish ghettos', they were used to house Jews (and gypsies).
Joseph Rudavsky has written: 'THE CONCEPT OF KIDDUSH HAHAYYIM AS EXPRESSED IN THE GHETTOS DURING THE HOLOCAUST IN EUROPE, 1939-1945' 'To live with hope, to die with dignity' -- subject(s): Intellectual life, Jews, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jewish resistance, World War, 1939-1945
Ghettos, the same as for any neighborhood that is segregated for ethnic or cultural reasons.
to confine the Jews
ghettos