Ghettos in the Holocaust The Badge of Shame - 1243 Words

I would sit in our apartment, and I would see the Polish children across the street bringing milk back home. It was like watching people in a storybook-we had no food, no milk... These words of Nelly Cesana, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto, are just a slight insight to the torture and neglect that Jews endured while living at the ghettos of the Holocaust. The concept of separation of people by religion actually began in the Middle Ages. By the time the Nazis came to power, the ghettos were no longer in use, but the Nazis revived the idea of separation by religion. The Nazis wanted the Jews separated from the rest of the population, allowing them to practice their religion without impacting the rest of the population (Wood 58-59).†¦show more content†¦In the ghettos, the Jews used a very unique form of transportation, rickshaws, as cars and other vehicles were banned. These rickshaws were very useful in allowing the Jews to smuggle food as a result of the malnutrition that they faced on a day-to-day basis (Everyday Life in the Ghettos 4/7) In addition to the horrible living conditions, the Jews dealt with malnutrition on as a daily struggle; having to sometimes even perform illegal acts in order to get the food they needed to stay alive. The general diet in the ghettos consisted of turnips, rotten potatoes, groats, moldy flour, meager portion of bread, and a small monthly supplement of margarine and meat. In the Warsaw ghetto, the starvation rations included 180 grams of dry bread per day and 220 grams of sugar per month...Children up to the age of three were given a daily supplement of one-quarter liter of milk, two eggs, 250 grams of semolina porridge, and a piece of soap. (Ghettos: Hunger and Diesase 260) In the Warsaw ghetto, food was rationed according to calories. An average person needs around 2,000 calories per day, but in the ghettos, the Poles received 669 calories a day, and Jews received 184. No one ever got more than 1,100 calories per day (Ayer 22). Starvation was one of the greatest struggles that the Jews experienced in the ghettos. Some were in such need of food that they smuggled food into the ghettos. This was often done by sending children through holes in the walls, or even throughShow MoreRelatedThe Holocaust : An Abstract2552 Words   |  11 PagesThe Holocaust Era: Keith Hearn ENC 1101 Professor Robin Rogers 7/21/16Abstract An abstract is a brief summary—usually about 100 to 120 words—written by the essay writer that describes the main idea, and sometimes the purpose, of the paper. When you begin your research, many scholarly articles may include an abstract. These brief summaries can help readers decide if the article is worth reading or if addresses the research question, not just the topic, one is investigating. The Holocaust Era:Read MoreDehumanization And Its Effects On The World War II1863 Words   |  8 Pagessubconscious of murder. More specifically, dehumanization was represented in Abu Ghraib as well as the My Lai Massacre, and throughout the entire Holocaust. There are two types of dehumanization; animalistic and mechanistic. Animalistic dehumanization is defined by psychologist as human characteristics denied to an outgroup; such as Jews in the Holocaust or African Americans during slavery. Contrastingly, mechanistic dehumanization is human characteristics being denied to a target; such as communismRead More Roots of Anti-Semitism Essay5756 Words   |  24 Pages nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;After learning about the Holocaust, I’ve asked myself many times how this could have happened. Why would anyone believe it’s acceptable to massacre an entire people? This is my reasoning for writing my paper on how Christian theology influenced anti-Semitism. Much of the Holocaust a ppears to have it’s beginning with Christian theology. I will begin my paper with the early writings of Christians and continue chronologically until after World War II. The Apostle Paul