Ghettos
- The word “ghetto” came from the name of the Jewish quarter in Venice.
- The ghettos started in 1516
- The Venetian forced the Jews to live there.
- During 16th and 17th centuries, there were many ghettos created for Jews in Frankfurt, Rome, Prague, and many more cities.
- Ghettos were places that separate Jewish communities from the non- Jewish communities.
- There were at least 1,000 ghettos in German, Poland and the Soviet Union.
- The largest ghettos in Poland were Warsaw ghetto. There was more than 400,000 Jews live in an
- area of 1.3 square miles.
- The Germans and their helpers will shot the old people that live in the ghettos, and other will be sent people
to the killing centers.