The ghettos

Question 1

Why did the Germans move Jews to ghettos

Answer 1

after the Nuremburg laws, all Jewish people were no longer considered Germans, thus they were sent to many ghettos which were towns for Jewish people that had terrible conditions

Question 2

What was the largest ghetto

Answer 2

The Warsaw ghetto which consisted of 500k people.

Question 3

describe ghettos

Answer 3

• overpopulated
• not enough food for whole population to survive
• dirty and filled with diseases
• high death rate
• poverty
• got so bad that family members had to sell their dead relatives clothing
• 300 calories per day

Question 4

Why did Germans move Jews into ghettos

Answer 4

Following the Nuremberg Laws, no one who was Jewish could call themselves German anymore.

As a result of this they were not welcome to live in Germany. They were rounded up and deported to ghettos (towns for Jews where no one was allowed to leave). Conditions were below living standard

Question 5

What was life like for the jewish people?

Answer 5

IT was terrible

• Children who were trying to steal food to survive were brutally killed by German soldiers with the use of dogs
• Women stripped
• men beated and elderly abuse
• Sickness going around Called typhus from lice that was mostly used to cover up many of the deaths in ghettos.
• Extreme starvation.

Question 6

examples of jobs people had to do in ghettos

Answer 6

You could work for agriculture, the hospital and one of the survivors from the slideshow worked in a paper company to help support her family

Question 7

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. why important?

Answer 7

It was the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto to oppose the final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to Majdanek and Treblinka death camps April 19th 1943 - May 16th 1943.

Question 8

Whats a ghetto?

Answer 8

A ghetto, is a part of a city in which jews live to isolate them from the rest of Germany,