Elie Wiesel Ghetto

Elie Wiesel stated “it all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.” The ghettos were really nice to Elie and his family before they went to concentration camp. The ghettos were going to take in Elie and his family when they needed to move. The ghettos played an important role in World War II for the Jewish people. The life that people in the ghettos had was pretty insufferable. About 3-4 families lived in one house which was a crowded room . In the article, “life in the ghettos was usually unbearable. Overcrowding was common. One apartment might have several families living in it”(Life 1). In the ghettos

Germans deliberately tried to starve the residents by allowing them to purchase only a small amount of bread, potatoes, and fat” (Ghettos 1). The Germans would make the people in the ghettos starve on purpose. Lots of people would die because of hunger and of the coldness. Some people in the ghettos did not have the money sometimes to buy food or make a fire when it was really cold outside. During the long winters, they couldn’t prove the heat for their families or for themselves. The article indicates that “people weakened by hunger and exposure to the cold became easy victims of disease; tens of thousands died in the ghettos from illness, starvation, or cold” (Holocaust 1). Everyday children lose their parents, some even have to take care of their siblings before something happens to them. The children that lost their parents would be out on the streets ask people for bread, the people that had a little bit to share. For the children on the streets that wanted to survive, they had to do stuff and make themselves useful. Some of the children would help out by bringing the families their food through narrow openings on the walls. If they got caught bringing food, the Germans would punish