Shop doors either had the Star of David painted on them or their doors and windows were broken. Libraries were raided and any book written by a Jewish author was burned out in the street.
The Jews were first escorted from their homes and traveled in a boxcar to be sent to a ghetto. The ghetto was supposed to separate the Jews from the rest of the German citizens. Ghettos were only temporary; some lasted days, weeks, months, even several years. Majority of the Jews that stayed at the ghetto died because of disease, starvation, were shot, or they were deported to killing centers. The Germans made at least 1,000 ghettos in German-occupied annex Poland and the Soviet Union. There were three kinds of ghettos; an opened ghetto, a closed
The Jews were first escorted from their homes and traveled in a boxcar to be sent to a ghetto. The ghetto was supposed to separate the Jews from the rest of the German citizens. Ghettos were only temporary; some lasted days, weeks, months, even several years. Majority of the Jews that stayed at the ghetto died because of disease, starvation, were shot, or they were deported to killing centers. The Germans made at least 1,000 ghettos in German-occupied annex Poland and the Soviet Union. There were three kinds of ghettos; an opened ghetto, a closed