Concentration

&
Ghettoization
By: Michael Whipple, Sara Tracy,
Monica Contreras, and Cassie Howard
Definition of Concentration
A close gathering of people or things.
Example of Concentration: The concentration of people at
the concert made it hard to move.
Definition of Ghettoization
Definition: It is the part of a city in which members of a
minority group live, especially because of social, legal,
or economic pressure. (First used in Venice to describe
where the Jews were forced to live.)

Concentration & Ghettoization in
Holocaust
Jews were forced to move to a small living area
Cannot interact with non-Jews
Established thousands
Used to control/separate while planning what to do with
them
Life in the Ghetto
Food: often smuggled, people intentionally starved
Overcrowded spaces, multiple families
Diseases spread faster due to overcrowding








Influence of Ghettos
Damaged self-esteem
Created discrimination
Increased violence against others
Created depressing environment

Resistance
Developed in approx. 1/4 of all Nazi-occupied ghettos
Main goals: organize, break out, fight the Germans
Resisted deportation
Smuggled guns, medicine, and food
Transportation Between Ghettos
Packed in cattle trucks to concentration camps
Took days for them to travel
They were never told where they were going
Never knew where they ended up until they were told

Labor
Kids often worked if the parents could not
Sold things on the streets or worked in factories
Children worked along adults, completing the same
work
Police of the Ghettos
Jewish men
no firearms
uniform
Used to help secure deportation of Jews
Police often tortured other jews and were very cruel to
them
Separation by Beliefs
Ghettos were made to separate the Jews from the
Aryan race
Ghettos helped to measure control and separation of
the Jews
Aryan race was superior over the Jews








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