Meant to be temporary but many lasted months to years Many died from disease or starvation Once the Final Solution began late 1941 Germans liquidated the ghettoes by mass murder by being shot or being deported to killing centers few went to labor or concentration camps ID: 687392
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Ghettos
Residential districts set up to segregate the Jews from the rest of the population.
Meant to be temporary, but many lasted months to years
Many died from disease or starvation.
Once the Final Solution began (late 1941) Germans liquidated the ghettoes, by mass murder by being shot or being deported to killing centers; few went to labor or concentration campsSlide2
Ghettos
Piotrków
Trybunalski, 1
st ghetto in Poland, Sept 29, 193923,000 forced to live where 6,000 previously livedSlide3Slide4Slide5
LodzSlide6
A man and his daughter in forced labor at a factory in the Lodz ghettoSlide7
Ghettos
Jews were forced to wear identification badges and armbands
Forced to carry out labor
A
dministered by a Nazi-appointed Jewish councils
–
the
Judenraete
Ghetto police enforced those decisions
–
many of the police were Jewish
Germans killed Jews that disobeyedSlide8
WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING
Jews did try organized resistance; Warsaw uprising most famous
Summer 1942: 300,000 Jews deported to Treblinka; reporters returned of mass murders. Treblinka was an extermination camp.Slide9
WARSAW GHETTO UPRISINGSlide10
WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING
Young persons in the Warsaw ghetto organized the ZOB (
Zydowska
Organizacja
Bojowa
–
Jewish Fighting Organization)
Encouraged the Jews to resist going to the railroad car for deportation
Were successful in January 1943; Warsaw ghetto fighters fired on the Germans
(Weapons were smuggled into the ghettos); Germans eventually retreated
Uprising: April 19, 1943
–
750 fighters fought off heavily armed Germans until May 16; Germans wore out the resistance
56,000 Jews were captured, 7,000 shot, the remaindered deported to camps (Treblinka and
Majdanek
)
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