Life In The Ghettos During The Holocaust

Life in the ghettos and the concentration camps during the Holocaust was brutal and their lives were in the merciless hands of the SS officers. The Jews were taken from their homes and put into force labor and worked in conditions that were cold, rainy, muddy, and Jews slept on concrete or wooden beds. Jews first started out in the ghettos and then were moved to the concentration camps where selection and forced labor began. Many of Jews were killed and put through brutal lives. The prisoners lived their life through horrible living condition, forced labor, the fear of execution or selection, and the aftermath of Holocaust. At first when the Jews were captured, they were put into the ghettos which segregated the Jews from the rest of the population. The men were taken away from the women and children. The living conditions in the ghettos were unbearable, it was overcrowded and in one apartment there may be many of families living in it. Also there were contagious diseases that roamed in the air and quickly spread because of the families living so close together. Germans deliberately tried to starve residents by allowing them to purchase only a small amount of …show more content…
“After liberation, many Jewish survivors feared to return to their former homes because of anti-Semitism (hatred of Jews) that still went on in parts of Europe and the trauma they suffered.” With few possibilities for emigration, tens of thousands of homeless Holocaust survivors migrated westward to other European territories that were liberated by western allies. “A considerable number and variety of Jewish agencies worked to assist the Jewish displaced persons. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee provided Holocaust survivors with food and clothing, while the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT) offered vocational training.” Many Jews that survived still have nightmares of the