Essay On Ghetto

The Holocaust was a horrible event in history, and a time of terror for millions of Jewish people. The ultimate goal of Hitler and the Nazis was to exterminate all of the Jews and create a perfect Aryan race. The first step in this awful process required the establishment of ghettos. Ghettos were mainly used to keep the Jewish population in one place until the Germans could find a way to kill the entire population. The first ghetto was established in 1939, and the largest ghetto was the Warsaw ghetto. The Nazis moved from city to city and quarantined all of the Jewish people into ghettos. Many people had no idea why they were forced into the ghettos, and did not understand the dangers that the future held. Others knew about the concentration camps and were deathly afraid of the future. The Warsaw is ghetto was the most well-known ghetto. Many inhuman acts were carried out by Nazis, such as mass shootings, forced labor, and malnutrition of the Jews. There were also uprisings in some of the ghettos. These uprisings usually ended with the death of many Jews, but they improved morale. Ghettos were a terrible place to live, and they offered a grim future. Events that took place in the ghettos were heartbreaking, such as the reasons why …show more content…
What do you say now? Where is their famous cruelty? The Germans were already in our town, the fascists were already in power, the verdict was already out- and the Jews of Sighet were still smiling." (Wiesel 10).
This quote explains how oblivious many Jews were to the danger of the Germans, and how little was shared about the Holocaust to the world. People were not overly afraid when ghettos were first formed, as seen in the quote from night, they did not comprehend what was going to happen to them. It was not until they experienced the horror within the ghettos that they finally realized the grave danger they were in. Originally ghettos were created to be temporary, but ended up housing Jews for many