What was daily life like for children of the Jewish ghettos?

Answer 1

The Ghettoes first off were run down parts of a city, then walls were built around it to ensure no one could get in or out. The condition within would have been horrific, several families to a room. Poverty, starvation and disease racked the people within. Many died because of it and that was the Nazis idea.

Answer 2

In 1939 the Nazis created ghettos (for Jews) in Poland and in some other areas. The ghettos were usually not based on existing Jewish districts, and most Jews were uprooted from their homes and forced to move there, and Gentiles (non-Jews) were moved out.

• The ghettos were cut off from the surrounding area (with slightly varying degrees of strictness) .
• All movement into and out of the ghetto was controlled by the SS.
• The Jews were dependent on the Nazis for essentials like food and water. Moreover, all other goods and materials entering or leaving the ghetto were subject to scrutiny and usually prohibitions by the Nazis.
• The ghettos were badly overcrowded.
• The amount of food allowed into the ghettos was deliberately kept inadquate by the Nazis, in order to starve the Jews.

The purpose was to contain and control the Jews.

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Late in 1939 the Nazis started creating ghettos in occupied Poland. These were areas where Jews had to live, whether they wanted to or not. Very often the Nazi ghettos were not located in the established Jewish quarter but somewhere else. The Jews were forced to move into these areas, and non-Jewish Poles were moved out. Then the ghetto was 'sealed' - that is, cut off by walls and barbed wire from the surrounding area and guarded.

Life in these Nazi ghettos in Poland (and also Lithuania, Latvia and parts of Belarus) was grim. All food and medicine had to enter the ghettos from outside, and the Nazis made sure that the amount of food was inadequate, so many Jews died of starvation. In most ghettos the Jews smuggled some raw materials in, set up small workshops, made goods and then smuggled them out and exchanged them for food. Obviously, this was only possible on a small scale.

Inside the ghettos, the Jews tried to continue to keep life as normal as possible, despite the intolerable conditions. They tried, for example, to provide schooling for the kids.

Every Nazi ghetto had a 'Jewish council' (Judenrat), whos chairman was appointed by the Nazis. The council had to police the ghetto and suppress any food riots. Some of these Judenräte were collaborationist to some extent. However, policing by fellow Jews, though ironic and unpleasant, was preferrable to being policed by the SS.

Later, the Jewish councils were required to draw up lists of residents for deportation to the death camps ... they also ate apples

Answer 3

Jews started out by losing their businesses and being forced to wear identifying clothing and eventually could not go out at certain times. They were then rounded up and sent to concentration camps where they were sorted: men and woman, young old, healthy weak, and the old and weak were sent to gas chambers where they died. Those who could be used for work lived in the camps and worked on meager food supply and eventually either died, or if they were lucky, lived to see the day when the troops arrived to rescue them.

Answer 4

That was made to exclude them from German citizens before sending them to the camps. Ghettos isolated Jews by separating Jewish communities from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities.

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The ghetto was not a Nazi invention. Its origins can be traced back to medieval times, when restrictions on the places where Jews were allowed to reside were commonplace throughout Europe. Although this restriction is usually perceived as relating to towns or cities, it even applied in certain cases to entire countries.

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In 1791, Catherine the Great created the Pale of Settlement in western Russia. Most Jews were only allowed to reside within the Pale, and even there some cities were prohibited to them. Even earlier, in 1290, Edward I had expelled all Jews from England. They were not to be officially permitted to return until the time of Oliver Cromwell in 1655.

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The term "ghetto" originated from the name of the Jewish quarter in Venice, established in 1516, in which the Venetian authorities compelled the city's Jews to live. Various officials, ranging from local municipal authorities to the Austrian Emperor Charles V, ordered the creation of ghettos for Jews in Frankfurt, Rome, Prague, and other cities in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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The Germans established at least 1,000 ghettos in German-occupied and annexed Poland and the Soviet Union alone. German occupation authorities established the first ghetto in Poland in Piotrków Trybunalski in October 1939.

Answer 5

Conditions were deplorable and malnutrition and disease couldn't be avoided.

Answer 6

pretty darn crappy

Answer 7

life was bad. no food