Ghettoisation Flashcards
what happened following kristallnacht?
Nazi’s intensified their efforts into isolating and segregating the jews from the rest of society.
Where were the majority of the ghettos?
Poland and outside of germany
were the ghettos important in escalation?
the ghettos were a key contributor the escalation of antisemitism
What were ghettos?
Ghettos were enclosed districts where jews were forcibly relocated to from their homes, and isolated.
What were the living conditions like in ghettos?
They had a lack of sanitation and rampant disease.
What did the overcrowding involve?
Overcrowding included 15 people sharing a regular sized apartment, two percent of which had running water.
What was the largest ghetto and what was it like?
The largest ghetto was the warsaw ghetto in poland, it held 400,000 people in an area of 1.3 square miles.
How was it apart of the Nazi plan?
Ghettoisation was apart of the nazi plan to control and eventually eliminate the jewish population
Why were they used?
The ghettos were used as means for concentrating the jews in preperation for their eventual deportation to camps.
What did the preparation process do?
The preperation process in ghettos dehumanized the jews, reducing them to an isolated, controlled life and further assisted in the plan of the final solution
