Jewish+Ghetto

=Jewish Ghetto=

When Germany started to invade the center of Poland (Warsaw), the Nazis took complete control of it, spreading quickly. There was a lot of destruction, and all Jewish people were taken out of their everyday lives and put into a place specifically for Jews. This place is known as the Jewish Ghetto. Life was perfectly fine before because they were equal and everyone was treated the same. In the Jewish Ghetto, the streets were narrow, leaving barely enough room for all of the people trapped there to walk through. The reason for them being trapped - Adolf Hitler and his command of building a large 8-9 foot, barbed wire wall around the ghetto. Almost no one escaped, and the few who did died while trying to escape Poland. 138,000 people were stuck in the confined space of small apartments and crowded streets. Even worse - the number grew, and quickly. 65% of the people there were unemployed, and the ones that were employed didn't make much. Some snuck in possessions to trade with other people. Many died because, without a job, they had no money and lived in the streets without food. They would get sick and die from diseases. Because there was nobody who cared enough to clean up the body, it would rot and decay, spreading the disease to more and more people. Another problem was that the German soldiers cared so little about the Jews, that they would sometimes, for fun, go into their tiny apartments and rush them outside. They would be given the choices to try and run away or be put in the military car they had. Either way, it was a trap and you were going to die no matter what you did. It was a horrible experience and once they put everyone in concentration camps, German soldiers torched the buildings. Almost the entirety of the ghettos was destroyed. There are some, though, that are still in tact; well some of it is.