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What is a ghetto?

- a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by member of an ethnic or minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.

How did it affect the people around?

Where did the ghetto begin?

It began in October 1941 when general deportation began from Germany to major ghettos.

  • Contagious disease spread rapidly in such cramped areas.
  • Germans starved residents; they were forced to beg or steal TO SURVIVE.

How did the ghetto get around?

It was originally the street or quarter of a city in which the jews were compelled to live the term is now applied to that part of any city or locality chief or entirely inhabited by jews.

Where did the ghetto get its name?

How many different types are there?

There are three types of ghettos.

  • closed ghettos
  • open ghettos
  • destruction ghettos

Destruction ghettos were tightly sealed off and existed for two to six weeks before the germans an/or the collaborators deported or shot the jewish population in them.

the term "ghetto" originated from the name of the jewish quarter in Venice.

Closed ghettos are situated primarily in Germany, occupied Poland and occupied Soviet Union.

They were closed by walls or by fences with barbed wire.

Open ghettos had no walls or fences, but there were restrictions on entering and leaving.

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Works Cited

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Holocaust Memorial Day Trust charity, 2005. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://hmd.org.uk/assets/downloads/221_Warsaw_Ghetto_Market_1941.jpg>.

MWC News. MWC News, 2006. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://mwcnews.net/images/stories/rokgzipper/warsaw-ghetto-market.jpg>.

No Child’s Play. Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, 2012. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/nochildsplay/img/ghettos/photo01.jpg>.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. USHMM, n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.ushmm.org/>.

By: Elizabeth Languren, Amanda Huerta, LaReecia Harris, Gladys Jarquin

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