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Americans Help People In The Ghettos!

By David Acuria

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I am alerting people in America and anyone able to help. There's horrible things happening where the Jews are being held. These places where the Jews were being held were called ghettos. They get mistreated daily and plainly terrible things happen here. The main person responsible for this happening to the Jews was “Adolf Hitler” and his Nazi group who simply are trying to get rid of the Jewish race for good.

Germany invaded Poland in 1933. When Germany invaded Poland they took advantage of it by making ghettos there to place the Jews. The term Ghetto came from the Jewish quarter in Venice. Ghettos were city districs. All the ghettos were located in Poland. They were other ghettos made, the most known were the lodz, krakow, bialystok, lubilin, and kovno. Jews were being abused, starved, and got burned things you couldnt imagine were happening in these ghettos.

Bodies of humans would lay in the streets but in time people got use to it. Everyday there would be dead bodies laying in the middle of the streets. The real poor Jews would beg for money in the street but truth was that no one had enough food to give away, so many kids died daily in the streets because of starvation and disease. These ghettos had curfews and the ghettos would be sealed from end to end for not one Jew can escape the ghetto. These ghettos were full of disease especially lice; they were forced to live in terrible conditions. They didn't take showers for days which gave them a terrible odor. Everything in the ghetto was unsanatary. These diseases the Jews had weren't able too be cured because of the lack of medical attention the Jews received from the Germans.

"Begging Children"

Families were so hungry when one of their loved one died they would hide his body to receive his/her ration of bread, and hopefully they would pray that the Germans didn't find out. Jews took a prescribed ration of about 200 calories daily. Many attempts were made to increase the daily ration. All efforts to have the German supplies increased proved to be dead ends. In the ghettos people sometimes would smuggle food or weapons, joined resistance groups and do illegal activities that Jews weren't allowed to do. The houses in the ghettos were open caskets, every door you opened there was a dead body you couldn't miss it.

In the ghettos births would stop because parents knew that this was no enviroment for them to even survive. Babys died from lack or nourishment. In the ghettos doctors would receive babies from the mothers but once it was born the nurse would lay him on a pillow and grab another pillow and smother him 'till he grew silent.

Please after reading this do something to help these Jews. Everyday there living with fear in their eyes because of discrimantion towards their race. Its never to late to help so do anything possible to stop the Nazi's doing this to Jewish people.

Bibliography

Book. 
Wiesel, Elie. Night. NY. Bantam:1960.

Profesional Websites

1. "Holcaust Learning Center." Ghettos. 7 May 2002. http://uhsmm.org/topics.

2."Remember.org."Couraga Under Seige. 8 May 2002. http://remember.org/courage/chapter6.html.

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