Ghetto - half-forgotten in the early twentieth century the word.Its original meaning - the name of the Venetian area in which the Jewish community lived in isolation in the Middle Ages.Living this part of the city of non-poor people, it was elected freely and, in general, this situation suits both its inhabitants and all other Venetians.Jews could observe their traditional values and not worry that their communities will somehow broken.Then, the order has changed, and living in a ghetto for the Jews was forced.He was surrounded by a fence, and the door locked for the night began.
If you ask what is a ghetto, an American, he usually responds, it's a place where poor people live, mostly blacks.Of course, nothing in common with the medieval areas densely populated by Jews such places do not have, but the name stuck, and the long period of time, talking about the neighborhoods of the South Bronx, Harlem and Brooklyn.
But the most sinister sense of the word has acquired in the years of World War II.Nazis in the occupied territories immediately proceeded to the division fell under their rule the population on ethnic grounds.Each captured the city created the Jewish ghetto, which were driven in by registered representatives of this nationality.
District Lock, was surrounded by barbed wire and guard posts were placed around.The Soviet people, who did not know that such a ghetto, could not imagine the further fate of the inhabitants of this area.The duties of the Internal Administration (capo) were maintaining order and reporting to the occupation authorities about everything that happened behind the fence.It was formed and the internal police.As conceived by the Nazis all the Jewish population to be destroyed, but as the power of "factories of death" was not enough for a quick "final solution of the Jewish question" that needed some buffer zones, which doomed it would contain the time, when it's their time to die.
greatest popularity gained Minsk, Terezin, Krakow and Warsaw ghettos, but they were in Kharkov and Kiev, and Lviv, and Odessa, and other cities occupied by the enemy.The prisoners were kept in these zones inhuman conditions, starving and suffering from disease, they could kill or tear, incite the dogs at any time.Those who have experienced firsthand what the ghetto did not forget this humiliation ever.Most of the inhabitants of these closed areas were killed.We managed to save only those who managed to liberate the Soviet troops in the capture of Budapest and Teresina.In the Warsaw ghetto in the spring of 1943 a rebellion broke out, which was ruthlessly suppressed tightened urgently SS battalion.The fighting lasted for nearly a month.After the defense forces ran out, the survivors were sent to the Treblinka death camp, where not returned.
in full that is the ghetto, the world community has learned after the war.The few surviving prisoners were told about the inhuman conditions of forced labor, of massacres, of hunger, informers and executioners.Wars are not humane, but in the twentieth century produced outstanding scale genocide when millions of people were exterminated just for being born Jews, and the anticipation of this hell was the ghetto.
