people lived, people worked, people died. Everything was just a bit more extreme.
they were burned to the ground
All non-Jews had to move out.
The Final Solution was not implemented in 1941. By the time of the Final Solution most of the ghettos had been cleared and the inhabitants murdered.
There was not so much barbed wire in the ghettos. They were not like the camps where one would risk death by going to the wire.
they were most likely killed ___ They were given insufficent food and usually no medication in the ghettos. Most of the ghettos were also hopelessly overcrowded and disease spread easily. Moreover, from December 1941 on the inhabitants of the ghettos were taken to extermination camps and killed there.
Gradually, the ghettos were 'liquidated' - that is, emptied and shut down as the population was moved to extermination camps. The last big ghetto, Lodz (Poland), was liquidated in August 1944.
ghettos that are not closed, they were ghettos that did not restrict access, to either Jew or gentile.
Those who survived the appallingly low rations and the disease were later sent to extermination camps.
open and closed ghettos.
Nazis guarded the gates of the ghettos.
Closed , Open , and Destruction Ghettos
he did not care enough about ghettos for them to upset him.