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In Medieval Europe and some parts of the Arab World, the Jews were required to live only within certain areas of cities. In Venice, in the district of Canareggio, there was a neighborhood called "Ghetto" which happened to be the one assigned to the Venetian Jews. Eventually, the name of this particular area took on the meaning of any such area in any city. Jews remained in the ghettos well into the modern period and were first released from the ghettos by Napoleon who decreed that Jews were French citizens and need not live in separate areas. However, many Jews remained in the ghettos as they had a certain Jewish character to them by that point.

During the Holocaust, the term ghetto takes on a slightly different meaning. They were basically (to the Nazis) community homes to store as many possible Jews in for each city. Although there were more than just one ghetto in each city, more Jews than the ghettos could hold were always put into these ghettos to await "Relocation." This "Relocation" was actually deportation to a death camp. But, ghettos were just somewhat large Jew and other inferior containment buildings.

Answer 2

A ghetto was an area in a town or city where Jews lived, in most cases because they were not allowed to live elsewhere. As they tended to be overcrowded and, in many areas, the Jewish inhabitants were restricted in the work they were permitted to do (leaving many very poor) ghettos tended to be squalid, disease-ridden places with very poor living conditions. They existed in various European cities between the Middle Ages right up until WW2, which saw the famous uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto - when the Nazis tried to clear the ghetto, the Jews inside put up an armed resistance and were successful in holding off the Nazis for a number of weeks. However, the Nazis finally took the ghetto due to their superior numbers and firepower and set about burning or bombing the buildings, rounding up anyone they could and shooting anyone who tried to flee. Most of those captured were then sent to Treblinka where the majority died.

Comment on Answer 2

The above is confusing and inaccurate because it conflates medieval, early modern and Nazi ghettos. By 1870 ghettos (as places where Jews had to live bylaw) had been abolished in Europe, but were reintroduced by the Nazis in 1939-41, then liquidated.

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