Hatred causes wars. Hatred causes death. Hatred could explode when kept to oneself. Hatred is a critical factor of evilness in a human being, but everyone possesses some of it. The hatred felt in the heart of Adolf Hitler towards the Jewish faith was the main cause of the Jewish Holocaust. The Holocaust that kept hunger stricken Jews locked in ghettos. Ghettos are little towns inside of cities that could not be left nor entered by a person who does not practice the Jewish faith. Nazi malnutrition and neglect starved the Jews and Roma living there. Lodz Ghetto was among, and one of the biggest of these ghettos. The over 200,000 inhabitants had to endure immense suffering and pain both physically and emotionally. The ghetto was established in 1939 in Poland. Lodz Ghetto played the role of a victim in the crimes of the Holocaust because the isolation greatly impacted the residents, the lack of food caused intense hunger, and the threat of death or deportation to death camps caused anxiety in their everyday lives.
The residents of Lodz Ghetto struggled to survive because they were cut off from the rest of the world. For example, they solely depended on the Germans for all of their necessities which included food and water, housing, sewage, and heat (D 406). However, the Germans did not provide enough of these life essentials, if any. Additionally, communication with anyone outside the ghetto was almost nonexistent. Radios were prohibited, resulting in no news of the war or the outside world (D 408). Therefore, the residents had to trust that what the Germans were telling them were facts. This caused the residents to build a false sense of hope when being deported causing many of the new residents assume they were going somewhere better than the ghetto. Contrary to their beliefs, the new residents were taken to Chelmno Killing Center instead (F 2-3). Being cut off from the world was one of the catalysts to the acute suffering the residents had to endure. The Jews were not only cut off from the rest of the city by the means of communication, but they were also physically locked in. A barbed wire fence was built around the ghetto in April 1940 (F 1). Leaving the ghetto now became a much harder task. The Jews would be arrested if they were found “committing the heinous crime” of going out of the ghetto into the city (C 30-31). The intimidating fence and arresting of the Jews were not the only causes of isolation. Just as the Jews could not leave, people who were not Jewish could not enter (F 2). This caused complete detachment from everyone outside of the ghetto. In addition, special police guarded the outside of the ghetto (A 1). Ultimately, the Nazi guards did not care about the value of human life. Additionally, the guards instilled fear into the ghetto’s residents to keep them from escaping or smuggling food when trying to compensate for the little food they received (D 406). Hungry and scared, the citizens of Lodz Ghetto were trapped behind barbed wire and had absolutely no connection to the city. Food is an essential part, of life, but the inhabitants of the ghettos were living with barely enough to survive. The ghetto received a very little of food, and …show more content…
In the June of 1944, Heinrich Himmler ordered the liquidation of Lodz Ghetto (F 3). Nobody can stay in Lodz Ghetto, so the Jews had to be deported. The first group of deportees left on June 23, and they were headed to Chelmno Death Camp (F 3). Some more groups then followed. The hungry, tired, and emotionally and physically drained Jews left to an unknown place in hopes that it was better than the ghetto, only to learn they were all getting murdered. Before Lodz Ghetto’s population was close to zero, the liquidation of Chelmno took place (F 3). The destination of the deportations could no longer be there. Instead, about 74,000 Jews were sent to Auschwitz Concentration camps on August 4, 1944(F 3). They were then killed in the many large gas chambers that are found in the camp. The ill-fated Lodz Ghetto’s unfortunate ending killed all of its residents and all of their
The residents of Lodz Ghetto struggled to survive because they were cut off from the rest of the world. For example, they solely depended on the Germans for all of their necessities which included food and water, housing, sewage, and heat (D 406). However, the Germans did not provide enough of these life essentials, if any. Additionally, communication with anyone outside the ghetto was almost nonexistent. Radios were prohibited, resulting in no news of the war or the outside world (D 408). Therefore, the residents had to trust that what the Germans were telling them were facts. This caused the residents to build a false sense of hope when being deported causing many of the new residents assume they were going somewhere better than the ghetto. Contrary to their beliefs, the new residents were taken to Chelmno Killing Center instead (F 2-3). Being cut off from the world was one of the catalysts to the acute suffering the residents had to endure. The Jews were not only cut off from the rest of the city by the means of communication, but they were also physically locked in. A barbed wire fence was built around the ghetto in April 1940 (F 1). Leaving the ghetto now became a much harder task. The Jews would be arrested if they were found “committing the heinous crime” of going out of the ghetto into the city (C 30-31). The intimidating fence and arresting of the Jews were not the only causes of isolation. Just as the Jews could not leave, people who were not Jewish could not enter (F 2). This caused complete detachment from everyone outside of the ghetto. In addition, special police guarded the outside of the ghetto (A 1). Ultimately, the Nazi guards did not care about the value of human life. Additionally, the guards instilled fear into the ghetto’s residents to keep them from escaping or smuggling food when trying to compensate for the little food they received (D 406). Hungry and scared, the citizens of Lodz Ghetto were trapped behind barbed wire and had absolutely no connection to the city. Food is an essential part, of life, but the inhabitants of the ghettos were living with barely enough to survive. The ghetto received a very little of food, and …show more content…
In the June of 1944, Heinrich Himmler ordered the liquidation of Lodz Ghetto (F 3). Nobody can stay in Lodz Ghetto, so the Jews had to be deported. The first group of deportees left on June 23, and they were headed to Chelmno Death Camp (F 3). Some more groups then followed. The hungry, tired, and emotionally and physically drained Jews left to an unknown place in hopes that it was better than the ghetto, only to learn they were all getting murdered. Before Lodz Ghetto’s population was close to zero, the liquidation of Chelmno took place (F 3). The destination of the deportations could no longer be there. Instead, about 74,000 Jews were sent to Auschwitz Concentration camps on August 4, 1944(F 3). They were then killed in the many large gas chambers that are found in the camp. The ill-fated Lodz Ghetto’s unfortunate ending killed all of its residents and all of their