Ghetto Flashcards
Why did Nazis set up Theresienstadt
Model Jewish Settlement to counter rumors in international community about poor conditions in ghetto as well as transit camps
What three things did Jews do in the ghetto in order to keep way of life?
Educate children
Observe Jewish Holidays
Hold religious services
What five issues in the ghettos did the Jews have to deal with?
Filth Overcrowding Disease Staying warm Food shortage
What was the largest ghetto?
Warsaw
What three things did the Nazis use as boundaries for the ghettos?
Brick/stonewalls
Wooden fences
Barbed wire
How many ghettos were set up by the Nazis?
356
What were the Jews ordered to wear in order to make it easier to identify them?
Star of David
What reason did the Nazis give on why the Jews needed to be put in ghettos?
Isolate them from rest of society. Carried diseases
5 major ghettos
Warsaw Łódź Krakow Lublin Lvov
How many calories?
200
Germans hid true plans from citizens and inhabitants of the ghettos by claiming that Jews were being…
Resettled in West
