The Life in The Warsaw Ghetto
Katelynn Davis - 5th
Why Was The Warsaw Ghetto Important? What was it?
The Warsaw Ghetto was important because it was the first time in World War 2 where resistance fighters lasted. The Jews who fought lasted for over a month before the Nazis finally won. The battle ended in Complete Destruction of the Ghetto. About 2 years earlier, the Ghetto was built and the Jews were brought. The Jews referred to the Ghetto as a prison. One person wrote, "we are segregated and separated from the world and the fullness thereof, driven out of the society of the human race". This horrible place was a camp where Nazis took the Jews to basically torture them to death. They were starved, tortured, and mistreated just because of their religion.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX103.html
A Group of Teenagers in the Warsaw Ghetto
This picture is showing children without shoes and barely any clothes sitting next to other children.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/nochildsplay/ghettos.asp
Familys Being Deported
Jews didnt want to be deported so Nazis pratically bribed them with food just to get them to go. Of course the jews went because they had starved for so long getting barely anything to eat.
A Starving Mother and Her Children
~ Background Information ~
Interesting Facts
- The Nazis nicknamed the Jews camp as "The Jewish Cemetary".
- Even tough there were tall walls, many tried to escape.
- When the Nazis were deporting Jews, they went with the children so that they would not be alone.
- When first put in camps, the Jews were separated from christians.
- Nazis often called the Jews suffering "The Ghetto Disease".
- About 1000 people died in the Warsaw Ghetto.
- Many Jews were tricked into entering gas chambers.