 Designated section of town where the Jews were forced to live  had been done for centuries- word came from area in Venice where Jews lived during 1500s  First step in Final Solution  Able to get all Jews in one area=easier to deport to concentration camp  Began in 1939  Most in Poland  First ghettos located in Poland’s largest cities

 Jews were forced to leave home and take belongings to ghetto  Would march down street to designated area  Once there would be given a housing ticket which said where they would live  Once all in, would be sealed off and exits were heavily guarded  Forced to wear Star of David on clothing and white arm-band  Lets watch the Video!

 Given rations which were not enough to live on  Estimated- 300 calories/day/person  Very dirty = lots of diseases and death  Black market  Cramped living space  About 37% of the greater Warsaw population was squeezed into 4.6% of the area of the city  450,000 people that lived in the Warsaw ghetto  Still able to live lives normally  Example: practice religion  Forced to work for little to no money

 Most successful uprising  Underground resistance fighters had been smuggling weapons in  January 1943 fire on Nazis trying to round up Jews for transport and Nazis are forced to flee  April found out all remaining in Warsaw Ghetto are to be sent to Treblinka so go into hiding and fighters prepare

 Seven hundred and fifty fighters armed with a handful of pistols, 17 rifles, and Molotov cocktails faced more than 2,000 heavily armed and well-trained German troops supported by tanks and flamethrowers  Forced Nazis to flee but came back with more weapons, eventually the Nazis began to burn down all the buildings in Ghetto  Resistance holds out for 27 days until ended on May 16  300 Germans and 7,000 Jews were killed

 Hitler ordered all ghettos to be liquidated in 1942 and all residence to be sent to concentration camps  Rounded up and forced into cattle cars to be sent to a concentration camp or an extermination camp