What was the Warsaw Ghettos?

Answer 1

It was a section of the city of Warsaw, Poland, which the Germans walled and fenced off from the rest of the city, into which the Germans crammed Polish Jews - while moving Poles out of the area. By severely limiting food and medical support, the Germans used it to exterminate many without expending bullets or using gas chambers. For the Germans, it was an inexpensive and passive method of reducing the Jewish population, but TOO slow. One of the most loathsome features of life in the Warsaw Ghetto was that the Jews were forced, to some extent, to collaborate. The Jewish Council (Judenrat) was responsible for policing the ghetto, for distributing food and so on ... In April 1943 the remaining Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto rose in rebellion. The main uprising was put down within four days, but a small number of individual resistance fighters carried on fighting for some weeks. It was the biggest single act of resistance by the Jews during the Holocaust - and the first urban revolt against Nazi rule in Europe. Please see the links below for more detail. After invading Poland in 1939 the Nazis set up ghettos in many of the Polish cities, including Warsaw. The area was walled off from the rest of the city, and Jews from other parts of Warsaw and from surrouning areas were crammed into the ghetto, and Polish inhabitants were moved out. The area was desperately overcrowded. The amount of food allowed into the ghetto was hopelessly inadequate; no medication was allowed at all. Diseases broke out and many of the inhabitants died of a combination of malnutrition and disease. Most of those still alive in 1942-43 were sent to Trebinka, where they were gassed. The Warsaw Ghetto is particularly well known for the uprising in 1943 (which should not be confused with the larger Warsaw Uprising of 1944).

Answer 2

It was a section of the city of Warsaw, Poland, which the Germans walled and fenced off from the rest of the city, into which the Germans crammed Polish Jews - while moving Poles out of the area. By severely limiting food and medical support, the Germans used it to exterminate many without expending bullets or using gas chambers. For the Germans, it was an inexpensive and passive method of reducing the Jewish population, but TOO slow. One of the most loathsome features of life in the Warsaw Ghetto was that the Jews were forced, to some extent, to collaborate. The Jewish Council (Judenrat) was responsible for policing the ghetto, for distributing food and so on ... In April 1943 the remaining Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto rose in rebellion. The main uprising was put down within four days, but a small number of individual resistance fighters carried on fighting for some weeks. It was the biggest single act of resistance by the Jews during the Holocaust - and the first urban revolt against Nazi rule in Europe. Please see the links below for more detail. After invading Poland in 1939 the Nazis set up ghettos in many of the Polish cities, including Warsaw. The area was walled off from the rest of the city, and Jews from other parts of Warsaw and from surrouning areas were crammed into the ghetto, and Polish inhabitants were moved out. The area was desperately overcrowded. The amount of food allowed into the ghetto was hopelessly inadequate; no medication was allowed at all. Diseases broke out and many of the inhabitants died of a combination of malnutrition and disease. Most of those still alive in 1942-43 were sent to Trebinka, where they were gassed. The Warsaw Ghetto is particularly well known for the uprising in 1943 (which should not be confused with the larger Warsaw Uprising of 1944).