The Ghettos
Liquidation
What is a Ghetto?
A ghetto is an area where Jews are put to keep them centralized in one general location. There were many ghettos during the war, they generally were not in the best of neighborhoods and conditions. The Jews would live there until the Germans relocated them.
LIQUIDATION
Those living in the Ghetto receive notification that they'll be moving. They're not told where or why and have no say in the matter. SS troops invade the ghetto, go from building to building looking for people. Once they think they've found all the people they destroy the building. Some of the people found are lined up and killed in the streets, others are herded onto trains and drove off to a concentration camp or death camp.
warsaw ghetto
There was a ghetto in Warsaw Poland that caused quite a bit of trouble during their liquidation. Those in the ghetto were aware of the upcoming liquidation, they built bunkers, prepared for a battle, and waited for the SS. When the forces arrived to gather up the people they were greated by battle. Fighting between the Jews and the SS continued for serveral days until the SS found the leaders of the ghetto in their bunker. The Germans went bunker to bunker, building to building in search for Jews and declaired the opertion over. In reality they had missed thousands of Jews hidding out, some of them hiding for over a year until escaping to the Polish part of Warsaw. During this liquidation their was also a Polish uprising against the SS. The Poles rose up against the Germans, resulting in the city being destroyed and rouding up over 150,000 Poles that were to be brought to camps.
Aftermath of the fighting that took place during the Warsaw liquidation
A fighter that was found in the Warsaw ghetto
Hundereds of Jew in the street at the transportation point in Warsaw