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The Warsaw Ghetto was run (as other ghettos were,) by councils from the ghetto population. Though the ghetto was free to chose who would be part of these councils, the Germans would liquidate one or all members if they were resistant to German orders. The councils have been the subject of controversy and will always will be as they collaborated with the Germans. The leader of the Warsaw Ghetto killed himself when he realised that he was collaborating, though his successors also had to do the same job, they did not manage to protect the Jewish population as well as he did.

Any decrees or orders and criminal matters within the ghetto were expedited by the ghetto police, made up from the Jewish population, who were also responsible for ensuring that people got on the trains to their execution.

Within the ghetto there was everything available, some richer Jews would still retain servants. Prices however would increase as time went on and people were reduced to selling everything for food. Eventually the only people who could afford to eat in restaurants were the people who ran the black market.

There were many factories that people worked in, both inside and outside of the ghetto, though for poor wages and they were limited as to the number of people that they could employ, the factory owners though would never miss a meal. (the factories sold to the Germans). If a family did not have someone working in a factory then they would very quickly perish.

There was a curfew to deter smuggling, but most guards could be bribed.

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