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305:(Sept. 1, 1939) and the formation of Jewish ghettos caused hunger and poverty, crowding and unsanitary conditions, which in turn actually created typhus epidemics in occupied Poland. German physicians and public health officials in the Nazi regime did not acknowledge this; instead, German medical professionals published essays blaming Jewish people's supposed "low cultural level" and "uncleanliness" for the typhoid epidemics. Posters depicting Jews as lice, which transmit from person to person the bacteria that causes epidemic typhus, were publicized, and the respected status of German doctors helped spread the belief that the Jews were responsible for spreading typhus. The German public health officials in occupied Poland were concerned only with the health of German personnel, so they repeatedly urged occupation authorities to isolate Jews further from the rest of the population. 411: 224: 394:, 700 people lived in an area previously occupied by five families, between 12 and 30 to each room. The Jews were not allowed out of the ghetto, so they had to rely on smuggling and the starvation rations supplied by the Nazis: in Warsaw this was 1,060 kJ (253 kcal) per Jew, compared to 2,800 kJ (669 kcal) per Pole and 10,930 kJ (2,613 kcal) per German. With the crowded living conditions, starvation diets, and insufficient sanitation (coupled with lack of medical supplies), epidemics of infectious disease became a major feature of ghetto life. In the 535: 34: 458:. They were surrounded by brick walls, fences or barbed wire stretched between posts. Jews were not allowed to live in any other areas under the threat of capital punishment. In the closed ghettos the living conditions were the worst. The quarters were extremely crowded and unsanitary. Starvation, chronic shortages of food, lack of heat in winter and inadequate municipal services led to frequent outbreaks of epidemics such as 351:
in October. Most Jewish ghettos were established in 1940 and 1941. Subsequently, many ghettos were sealed from the outside, walled off with brickwork, or enclosed with barbed wire. In the case of sealed ghettos, any Jew caught leaving could be shot. The Warsaw Ghetto, located in the heart of the
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certificate. Such documents were sometimes called "Christian" or "Aryan papers". Poland's Catholic clergy massively forged baptism certificates, which were given to Jews by the dominant Polish resistance movement, the
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German forces regarded the establishment of ghettos as temporary measures, in order to allow higher level Nazis in Berlin to decide how to execute their goal of eradicating Jews from Europe. Nazi officials had an
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force was created to ensure that no prisoners tried to escape. In general terms, there were three types of ghettos maintained by the Nazi administration.
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did not have walls or fences, and existed mostly in initial stages of World War II in German-occupied Poland and the occupied Soviet Union, but also in
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historians. In a number of cases, they were the place of Jewish underground resistance against the German occupation, known collectively as the
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province of Ukraine occupied and administered by Romanian authorities. There were severe restrictions on entering and leaving them.
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existed in the final stages of the Holocaust, for between two and six weeks only, in German-occupied Soviet Union (especially in
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The Nazis had a special hatred of Polish and other eastern Jews. Nazi ideology depicted Jews, Slavs and Roma as inferior race
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city, was the largest ghetto in Nazi occupied Europe, with over 400,000 Jews crammed into an area of 3.4 square kilometres (
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces, and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918–1947
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varied in their size, scope and living conditions. The conditions in the ghettos were generally brutal. In
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proving they were not Jewish (none of their grandparents was a member of the Jewish community), such as a
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square miles). The Łódź Ghetto was the second largest, holding about 160,000 people. According to the
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The parts of a city outside the walls of the Jewish Quarter were called "Aryan". For example, in
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archives, there were at least 1,000 such ghettos in German-occupied and annexed Poland and the
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issued an order to liquidate all ghettos and transfer remaining Jewish inhabitants to
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To prevent unauthorised contact between the Jewish and non-Jewish populations, German
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ghetto established in December 1939. The first large metropolitan ghetto known as the
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and to a high mortality rate. Most Nazi ghettos were of this particular type.
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Total of more than 1,000 ghettos created mostly in Central and Eastern Europe
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Types of Ghettos. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
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The first anti-Jewish measures were enacted in Germany with the onset of
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https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/history-and-overview-of-ghettos
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some 43,800 people died of 'natural' causes, and 76,000 in the
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were assigned to patrol the perimeter. Within each ghetto, a
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The Holocaust - The Nazi Genocide against the Jewish People
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at ghetto entrances, the Nazis usually referred to them as
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The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
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period. However, soon after the 1939 German invasion of
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Experiencing History - Holocaust Sources in Context
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Index

German-occupied Europe

Radom Ghetto
German
Central
Eastern
South-Eastern Europe
Schutzstaffel
Order Police battalions
invasion of Poland
World War II
Nazi regime
ghettos
German-occupied Eastern Europe
Jews
Romani people
signage
Jewish Quarter
the Holocaust
ghetto uprisings
List of Nazi-era ghettos
Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland

Grodno Ghetto
Bezirk Bialystok
Nazism
Kristallnacht
Poland
Polish Jews
forcible expulsions

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