Ghettos and Trains

Ghettos and Trains By: David Metz, Dane Gay, and Hayden Cota-Robles

Ghettos • Name from a Jewish quarter in Venice • City district where Germans concentrated Jews to • Forced to live in harsh conditions

Ghettos: continued • When the concentration camps were full they would send people to the Ghettos • The ghettos were made to separate the Jew’s from the rest of the people • During war over a million Jews were sent to concentration camp.

Ghettos: continued • Tens of thousands of western European Jews were also deported into ghettos • In 1944 the Nazis completed the last major destruction of the Ghettos • The Warsaw ghetto was largest ghetto

Ghettos: Warsaw • Though the trains led to death there was still hope for the Jews to live • In response to the genocide, Jews formed two groups, ZOB and ZZW • Two groups were formed by the Revisionist Group

Warsaw • 1943 the Nazi forces in Warsaw tried to resume deportations, the Germans were met with the resistance • The groups saved about 5,000 people from the concentration camps • began the build foxholes and bunkers in order to fight the Germans more effectively

Warsaw • 1943 the Nazi forces were back to deport the last of the Jews out of the ghetto to liquidate it • The Jews in the Ghetto started little fights everywhere and held off the deportation for over a month

Trains • Most efficient way for the Nazis to move people in order to complete the final solution • The trains transported the Jews from the ghettos to Auschwitz • They fit 80 Jews to each compartment

Trains • Nazis made the Jews stand with their arms over their heads so they could fit as many people as possible in the compartments • The trains were going to transport about 11 million people for the final solution

Trains

Ghettos and Trains