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There was no set system to determine whether you were put in a ghetto or a camp. The reason there was no system is because there was no point to make one. The main purpose of the ghettos was so the Jews would live separated from the non-Jews. The ghetto acted as a holding point between the Jews homes and the death camps. They stayed in the ghettos until they could be transported to be executed. But many thousands of Jews died before they had a chance to execute them in the camps. (Life in the Warsaw Ghetto)

There were three types of ghettos however. These were closed, open and destruction ghettos. Closed ghettos are what they sound like. They are literally closed off. They might be closed by walls or barbed wire fences. The German authorities forced Jews to move into these closed ghettos. They had high mortality rates because of starvation, absence of food and water, severe winter weather and many sicknesses that became epidemics. Open ghettos have no walls or fences but have restrictions on when you can leave or come in. Destruction ghettos were tightly sealed off and only lasted a short time. This is because they lasted until Germans or anyone else helping deported or shot the Jews concentrated in the ghetto. (Types of Ghettos)

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Deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto during the ghetto uprising. Warsaw, Poland, May 1943. — National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.

By Anna