September 1st, 1939, World War II began. Also known as the Holocaust, during the Holocaust Germans built ghettos. Ghetto’s were built to hold jews before they were shipped off to camps. Ghettos played a major role during World War II. Ghettos held jews and “undesirables”, ghettos had horrible conditions, ghettos were often burned to hide their existence from American authorities, were all things that made up ghettos. These are all things talked about in this paper. Ghettos had very little space and very little food. People in ghettos usually died of disease and/or starvation. Ghettos didn’t have working plumbing, which resulted in people throwing waste into streets and led to disease. Most ghettos lasted for months to years. Well other ghettos
