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In the German-held occupation territories in World War Two, especially in Poland, ghettos were formed in the cities. A ghetto was a closed and guarded neighborhood within the city, into which the Jews were forcefully relocated and registered. These neighborhoods or "ghettos" were basically an urban form of a prison in which Jews were disallowed free movement, commerce or basic civil rights. The ghettos were severely overcrowded and lacked in basic supplies and services that people need. They were intended by the German occupation forces as a place to warehouse a very large number of Jewish people until they got around to making "selektions" or "aktions"on the town squares, in which large numbers of Jewish people were mandatorily chosen for liquidation, and forced onto railcars bound for the death camps that were set up by the Germans. Or murdered on-site, in the case of "aktions." Probably the largest and most famous ghetto was in Warsaw, Poland.

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