Life+in+the+ghettos

What was life like in the ghettoes? The ghettoes were used to isolate the Jews before being sent to the concentration camps. The time there was usually unbearable imagine staying in one room with 10 other people and starvation and thirst so bad that you were forced to drink your own urine. From 1940 to 1942 starvation and disease killed over hundreds of thousands of people. One apartment would hold up to several families so that is partly why so many people died of starvation and disease. Since there were such masses of people in these ghettoes plumbing had broken down so it let to peoples waste being thrown into the streets which was also a factor in the diseases caused. The Germans would intentionally buy small portions of food to starve the people. Some of the people in the ghettoes who still owned valuables traded it in for extra food for their family but others were forced to beg and plead for extra food. The ghettoes during the winter was unbearable the fuel for heating was very scarce also many of the people were forced to come into these ghettoes with little of their possessions. So most people weren’t prepared clothes wise for the harsh and cold winters. Life had gotten so bad in these ghettoes people were starting to commit suicide because the saw no hope in their lives and no chance of survival. So children had become orphaned every day, most of the children had to take care of themselves on their own and other children as well. The children seemed to be the life of these ghettoes, even with some parents dead and being taken away from their houses they still played and got an education. Many children continued to play with dolls and make them as well. Some of the adults in the ghettoes in order for the children to continue their education started classes and taught the children.