What+Ghettos

=What were Ghettos? By Brandon Atkins=

What ghettos were, were usually closed off and usually old run down old towns in Germany.Ghettos were meant to keep the Jews away from the Germans and they then used that isolation to their advantage, by abusing and mistreating them. The Jews were taken away from there families and then isolated from all other life. The people within the Ghettos might as well as gone mad inside because they had no more ties to the outside world and they were mistreated in ways that us Americans cannot fathom. The Ghettos were often just holding places for the Jews so that the Germans could get to them later. Within the walls of the Ghettos they were mistreated and often the Germans misled them so the Jews could not trust anyone. Ghettos were often just containment places until they could be moved to the concentration camps. "While being there at night, I saw the flames of the ghetto. And I saw also certain pictures which were seared in my mind. Some Jews running from one place to the other and also seeing some Jews jumping from buildings, but I was observing this from a window and I couldn't do anything..." ("[|Personal Histories]"). Jews deported to the Lodz ghetto. Poland, 1941 or 1942.