The Ghettos
Question :Reflect on one of the readings you’ve received since starting the Holocaust unit. In other words, share your thoughts and feelings and explain your thinking by citing a particular passage or quote from the text.
Response : In the article The Ghettos it states “German soldiers abused Jews in the streets” the Jews were walking to the ghettos while the Germans hurt them. This shows that the Germans had the freedom from Hitler to hurt and even kill Jews. For people who don’t know what ghettos are, “A ghetto was a section of the city in which Jews were confined and restricted to live behind walls,fence,or barbed wire”. in the article The Ghettos also talks about how ghettos were. One of the well known ghettos in Poland was the Warsaw Ghetto. It was well known because it had over half a million people in there and this part of Warsaw wasn’t big enough for half a million people.That is ridiculous And it was also well known for the Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto when the Jews realized that they were all going to die they started to kill the Germans. They knew that if they didn’t find back they were going to died for nothing. But as they fought back at the Germans they at least helped other Jews to have a little bit of survival. I think the Jews had to go through a really tough time. I am happy that the people in Warsaw Ghettos fought against the Nazis. They helped a lot of people get courage to fight the Nazis.The Jews had to life a bad life in the Ghettos. i think that The ghettos were better than the camps the Jews had to go to because in the camps the Jews had to work hard and they barely get food.
Your post made me consider the Jewish ghettos in relation to the concentration camps -- specifically, that those living in the ghettos still had the threat of the camps ahead of them. The ghettos were filthy and unsanitary, with Jewish people starving from meagre food rations and suffering from disease. Guards surrounded the ghettos and threatened potential escapees with death. The ghettos served as a sort of transition area before Jews were deported to death camps and concentration camps, so those living in the ghettos had to suffer the mental anguish of knowing that they still had the camps ahead of them and would be taken someplace about which they had only heard horror stories. I can only imagine how scared those in the ghettos must have felt about what their futures would hold.
ReplyDelete“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft
I like your quote. Your quote made me think of the people who were in death camps. In the death camps most Jews didn't know what was going to happened to them. this is the fear of unknown not know what is going to happened to you next.
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