The only architecturally intact ghetto in Europe is in Venice. It covers two islands, and when Jews were forced by law to live in the ghetto it was crowded and somewhat run down. The inhabitants built upwards from about 1630 onwards in order to make the best possible use of limited space. Ironically, the Venice ghetto has become a rather upmarket residential area in the last 30 years or so.
They were mainly like the ghettos today. the ghettos there is where Jews where forced to live. where They were evacuated and moved somewhere else. There were many small and cramped buildings. It was pretty dirty and the things there were in bad conditoin
The Jewish ghetto police secured the deportation of Jewish people to the concentration camps. They were also not permitted to carry weapons.
Warsaw, it was the largest Jewish ghetto of all.
The first attempt to set up a ghetto had been made by the SS in November 1939. In mid-November 1940 the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw was sealed off by a high wall. The Nazis did not use the term ghetto, but referred to the area as Jüdischer Wohnbezirk meaning Jewish Quarter.
Adam Czerniaków
Warsaw was a ghetto, but life was very poor for all jews.
Everyone was Jewish! It was a strictly 'all Jewish' place.
Warsaw - it was also the largest ghetto.
Because the the entity was a ghetto and they housed Jews.
The Jewish ghetto police secured the deportation of Jewish people to the concentration camps. They were also not permitted to carry weapons.
Warsaw, it was the largest Jewish ghetto of all.
Jewish police
To segregate the Jews.
the ghetto - or Jewish quarter was generally set up (where possible) in a non-Jewish part of town, so that they would not have access to their religious buildings.
The first attempt to set up a ghetto had been made by the SS in November 1939. In mid-November 1940 the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw was sealed off by a high wall. The Nazis did not use the term ghetto, but referred to the area as Jüdischer Wohnbezirk meaning Jewish Quarter.
It is an ironic scene. when the people first came to the Ghetto some of them belived it was a good thing, they were only Jewish people there. The Jewish people thought it is sate there, when actually there was no future in the Ghetto, only death.
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