PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Essential Question-
What was daily life like in the Warsaw Ghetto?
In the Warsaw Ghetto there wasn't enough space for the amount of people, so there was an average of 8-10 people living in each room.
A side effect of those cramped conditions was that people would rapidly die of sickness and infection. For example, between Oct. 1940 and Jul. 1942, 20% of the population was killed by a typhus epidemic.
The people who didn't die from sickness or disease probably died from starvation. The nazis restricted calories to the minimum anywhere from 710-820 cal. per day and 80% of food consumed in the ghetto was brought in illegally.
The Jews were even forced to wear identifying arm bands and go to work ever day making things for the German army such as, shoes, leather products, furs, sweaters, and socks.
The ghettos even had their own schools. These illegal schools were usually opened disguised as kindergartens, medical centers, and soup kitchens.
The ghettos also had their own police forces. They enforced the rules of the German authorities and were tasked with stopping minor uprisings and deporting Jews to the killing centers.
The most famous ghetto uprising was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The Jews revolted using smuggled or stolen weapons almost all Jews involved were killed.
Reflection
The Holocaust was truly a horrible time to be alive for Jews. They were taken from their homes, starved, experimented on, and killed, for no good reason. This topic is important to learn from so in the future we don't make the same mistakes the Nazis made. So we can learn to be better.
