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Annotated Bibliography: Ghetto

Ghettos (abridged article). United States Holocaust memorial museum, United States

Holocaust memorial museum, www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?moduleld=10007866.

Accessed 14 Mar. 2017.

This article is from the United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum. It talks about where

the term ghetto originated and how many ghettos the Germans established. The largest

ghetto was the Warsaw ghetto, it was home to about 400,000 Jews and the area of this

ghetto was only 1.3 square miles. This source is reliable because it does not have any

grammar or spelling errors, also it has working links and was written by a museum. This

article would be helpful for anyone wanting to learn more about where the word ghetto

came from and what the largest ghetto was.

Ghettos, ghettos-the holocaust, www.holocaust.com.au/thefacts/the-outbreak-of-world-war-

II---the-war-against-the-Jews/ghettos. Accessed 14 Mar. 2017.

This article is from the Holocaust.com and discusses what the ghettos were originally

established for. It talks about how the ghettos were only a temporary measure and goes on

to talk about the punishments for Jews leaving the ghettos and the penalty for Non-Jews

that harbored Jews. Over 1,000 ghettos were created and more than 450,000 Jews were

incarcerated. This website does not have any mistakes regarding spelling and grammar,

also has pictures that give the article a visual effect. Therefore, this article is reliable and

would be a great source for someone researching about the number of ghettos and the

number of victims incarcerated inside them.

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Ghettos. United States Holocaust memorial museum, United States Holocaust

memorial museum, http//:www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?

moduled=10005059. Accessed Mar. 13. 2017.

This article is also from the United States Holocaust museum. It states that some ghettos

were only supposed to be in service for days or weeks. They were created to segregate the

Jews from the rest of the population. Most of the ghettos inhabitants died of starvation,

disease, shot, or were deported to killing centers. They Jews were not allowed to gather

because the Nazis thought it posed a threat. Furthermore, the Jews responded with a

variety of resistance efforts but none of which were successful. This source is reliable

because it is from a museum and there are not any spelling or grammar errors. This article

is also a good resource for anyone researching the ghettos during WWII.

Wiesel, Elie. Night. 1st edition, Hill and Wang, 2006, New York, NY.

This source is book by Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor. He discusses the ghettos during

WWII when his family and he were packed tightly into homes with other families. They

had little food and usually did not have running water. The Nazis barked orders at them to

line up in the streets and give up their valuable belongings. The Jews were treated

unfairly for a variety of reasons, but being Jewish was enough of an offence. The Jews

did not receive the necessities to survive. The ghettos were unhygienic and the streets

were often littered with human waste. The ghettos were fenced in with barbed wire,

wooden fences, or brick, the Jews were cut off from the rest of the population. This is a

reliable source because it is a firsthand account of the ghettos and was professionally

published.