NAME THAT GHETTO!!!

Nazi Ghettos

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

Lodz Ghetto

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.