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WARSAW 1933-1939 Imagine being moved from your home where persecution, to a broken down house living with 10 other people and not getting food, water or medicine.

This is what the lives of jew during the holocaust looked like.

Jews living in the time of the holocaust lived a hard life because they were persecuted for their religion, moved to ghettos and deprived of resources.

Dead bodies were not picked up until night, during the day they were covered with newspaper

Warsaw Ghetto was burned more then once and had been bombed by the soviet Russians

Jewish persecution During the Holocaust, Nazis made sure everyone knew who was Jewish.

Nazis would search the streets for men with sidekicks and beards, make them wash the streets with them then cut them off their face. Nazis would also go to stores owned by Jews and put the star of David on the store so people would not go to that store and the owner would not make money, The Nazis would destroy synagogues. According to myJewishlearning.com “In November 1938, the Nazis organized a riot known as the “Night of Broken Glass”. This attack against German and Austrian Jews included the physical destruction of synagogues and Jewish-owned stores, the arrest of Jewish men, the vandalization of homes, and the murder of individuals.”

This quote shows that the Nazis wanted to scare Jews and show that they were in charge of them. Many Jews were scared and thought that it could not get worse, Thats when the nazis put them in the ghetto.

the Warsaw ghetto was the largest ghetto with about a half a million people held there Jews were forced to work in a metal shop under horrible conditions Food and water was unsanitary only 300 calories of food were offered each day Warsaw was established on October 2, 1940

Jewish Ghettos Jews living in the ghettos had a very slim chance of survival. According to www.ushmm.org over 6 million Jew died in the Holocaust and the number of deaths in the ghettos is over 800,000.

People walking the street would pass many bodies each day of Flops and Nazis would line up the Jews and kill or beat the ones that did not stand up straight with clubs. Since most of them were dying they could not stand up and many Nazis beat them to death. Jews were not permitted to leave and they had to live in crowded spaces, when a jew got a disease like typhus, it infected many others as well. The main reasons of death in ghettos are due to disease, Nazis, and because they were deprived of resource like food and water.

Timeline 1933-Hitler in power 1935- Nuremberg race laws 1938- Ghettos established in Poland 1938- "Night of Broken Glass" 1939- war begins 1940- Auschwitz established 1941- poison gas tested in Auschwitz 1941- 1944- deportation of jews to killing centers

Resources During the Holocaust Jews were brought to ghettos to be separated from the rest of the people. They were put in house, that were meant to only last a few weeks. Once Nazis separated the Jews and put them in ghettos they started killing them. Nazis would not give Jews the resources needed to survive. Nazis did not give Jews medicine, many died of Typhus and other deadly diseases. Nazis rarely brought in more food into the Ghetto, so when the people moved in and sold or ate all of their food, there was almost never anything left to keep them alive. Many Jews did not even have a house. A jew that moved into a ghetto had to sleep on the floor of someone else house or sleep in the rumble outside.

During the holocaust the Nazis occupied Germany, Austria, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Western Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Denmark, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Norway

The Life of a Jew living during the Holocaust was very difficult. The persecution of Jews increased and lack of resources challenged survival. At the end of the war, 6 million people died and though, the Nazis were eventually defeated. This kind of genocide has thankfully not been repeated and the Jewish culture is now thankfully recovered, but will always remember this sad time in history.

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