Living In The Ghettos

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Living in the Ghettos Upon entering the barbed-wire fenced confines of a ghetto, all hope was lost; it was a nightmare come true for the Jews. Promised with deceit as they were taken from their homes and carted away to hell on earth, the Jews faced great suffering as they tried in vain to survive. Death was in every nook and cranny, waiting for the next poor fallen soul. Many wished to be anywhere else, but this horrid and godforsaken place. During the Second World War, the Nazis established over four hundred ghettos for the purpose of isolating Jews from the non-Jewish population and other nearby Jewish communities. The ghettos served as a temporary method of controlling and segregating the Jews. Jewish people were segregated to stop them …show more content…

A common issue in the ghettos was extreme overcrowding since several families were forced to live in one apartment that wasn’t large to begin with. Furthermore, ghettos were also very unsanitary. Plumbing constantly broke down, and human waste was thrown out in the streets along with the garbage similar to the medieval times. Diseases such as typhus also spread throughout the ghettos at a rapid rate and many people were starving due to food shortage. The Nazis actually deliberately tried to feed the Jews as little as possible by allowing them to buy only a small amount of potatoes, bread, and fat. Some people possessed some money or valuable items that they could trade for food smuggled into the ghetto while others were forced to beg or steal for the sake of their …show more content…

Jews who were deemed as basically useless by the Nazis were the first to be deported or shot to death. Despite the benefit of Jewish labor for the Nazis, the labor was expendable, and the first thing on their list was to exterminate the Jews. As the Jews were laboring away, the experience was even more unpleasant due to the fact that the Nazis would humiliate, bully, abuse, and even kill Jews for the fun of it. Not only were the Nazis using the Jews for their own benefit before exterminating them, they got a kick out of it. It’s appalling how cruel humans can be; to put another through pain and suffering, to ruthlessly kill another human being without much as a care or thought. How can one do such sick things to their own kind? The Holocaust is surely an event in history that shows the brutality of humans, but thankfully, the huge genocide came to an end on May 8, 1945. The Holocaust left scars in humanity for generations to come. Let such an event never happen

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