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Nazi Ghetto
Purpose: To separate Polish and German Jews into special work areas
400 ghettos in Poland and Nazi occupied Eastern Europe
Starvation and deprivation was used to weaken captives
Separated from towns by a fence or wall in the poorest, under-developed part of the city
Ghetto Propaganda
Necessary to separate in order to protect non-Jews from the Jews b/c Jews carried epidemic illnesses
Truth: Conditions in Ghettos created them Jews cooperated with German enemies Protection against Jewish thugs
BIG TRUTH: Nazi’s wanted to remove Jews from population
Organizing Ghettos:
1st Ghetto in Poland est. October 8, 1939 in Piotrkow Tribunalski 28,000 Jews displaced Work camp to produce glass
jars and bottles 2nd ghetto in Lodz
established February 8, 1940
Lodz Ghetto
Established in “Baloty Quarter” Poverty ridden area of Lodz
31,962 apartments with no toilets or running water
Eventually became a large slave labor camp
Problems: Hunger, overcrowding, and lack of sanitation
Life in Lodz Ghetto
Work Camp Deported to Chelmno and
Auschwitz 1940-162,000-164,000 Jews
were crowded into a 1.54 square mile area
1942- 204,800 Jews At height of production, there
were 96 factories producing textiles
Children and elderly were first deported
Gypsies in Lodz
5,000 deported in 1941 Put in fenced off area
within the ghetto 600 died of typhus
Disease carried by lice Fever, rash, inflammation in
brain and heart= deadly Nazis feared they would
spread more diseases, so they sent them to Chelmno in 1942
Warsaw Ghetto
Jewish population pre-WWII was 368,000 out of 1.26 million (about 30%)
Largest ghetto in population September 12, 1940, Hans Frank ordered Warsaw ghetto to
form Organized and established October 12, 1940 400,000 Jews lived in ghetto Food rationed, but not sufficient Eventually shipped to Treblinka death camp: 265,000 in 1942
Warsaw Resistance
Jan. 9, 1943- Himmler orders deportations of 8,000 Jews
No one reported Suspended deportations until
April 19, 1943 2000 German police came into
ghetto vs. 1500 resistance fighters
April 19, 1943- May 16, 1943 7,000 died in the fighting and
7,000 were deported to Treblinka 20,000 lived in hiding after
uprising
Krakow Ghetto
15,000 -20,000 Jews in Krakow ghetto initially in 1941
Factories established in the ghettos, some were forced to work in factories and forced labor projects outside ghettos
March 13-14, 1943- 2,000 Jews killed in ghettos, 2,000 Jews capable of working sent to Plaszow, another labor camp, and 3,000 sent to Auschwitz
Oskar Schindler
Judenraete
Jewish councils Purpose:
To ensure Nazi orders and regulations are implemented Provide basic community services to the Ghettos
Controversial because they had to turn in names for deportation- noncompliance= DEATH
Some advocated compliance b/c believed “rescue through labor” Most people in ghettos felt betrayed
Assignment:
Using the information in your charts about ghettos, the readings about the ghetto life, and the rounding up process, you will need to complete the following: Write a poem an ABC poem about life in the
ghettos and how the people were treated by the Nazis. (40 points)
Illustrate your reaction to the treatment of the Jews in the ghettos. (30 points)
Reflect on what your role would have been if you were forced into a ghetto and what would you have done? Would you have resisted or tried to “work to live”? (30 points)
This will be a quiz grade.