They were usually fenced in with barbed wire or were surrounded by walls. They did not want people leaving or entering. All of them were eventually destroyed as the Jews were deported to death camps. In these ghettos, there were thousands of people confined in a very small area. The Warsaw Ghetto was the most famous ghetto holding nearly 400,000 Jews in a three and a half square mile area. This place normally had about 160,000 people living there on average. They did not get enough food and the Jews were made to survived on a single bowl of soup a day. “We were not given enough to eat. The children looked through the garbage for food. There was not enough water to drink.” - Eva Galler, Holocaust
They were usually fenced in with barbed wire or were surrounded by walls. They did not want people leaving or entering. All of them were eventually destroyed as the Jews were deported to death camps. In these ghettos, there were thousands of people confined in a very small area. The Warsaw Ghetto was the most famous ghetto holding nearly 400,000 Jews in a three and a half square mile area. This place normally had about 160,000 people living there on average. They did not get enough food and the Jews were made to survived on a single bowl of soup a day. “We were not given enough to eat. The children looked through the garbage for food. There was not enough water to drink.” - Eva Galler, Holocaust