The word "ghetto" is not only the scariest place in America but also a word used to refer to a Jewish community. These ghettos or communities were the holding areas of many, many Jews who were forced to perform slave labor for the Germans during the war instead of going to concentration camps. In Germany, during the early stages of the war, more and more occupations were closed to Jews, and the free professions were totally banned to them. However, during the drafting of a general law designed to totally displace the Jews from their positions in the economy, it became evident to the Germans that the problem could not be solved without simultaneously clearing the way for increased emigration. If the Germans dispossessed them, they would no longer be a burden on the German economy. In June of 1938, a man named Martin Bormann, acting on behalf of t

In most ghettos that were established, including Lodz, the distinction between Jews who were fit or unfit for labor was not observed. Instead, the majority of Jews were interned in ghettos and the laborers were brought to places of work outside. Ubelhor stated, "The establishment of the ghetto is naturally only an interim measure. When and how the ghetto and city of Lodz will be purged of Jews is something I reserve for my exclusive decision. In any case, however, the final aim will be to burn this fraternity and pestilence to the end."

The "Jewish gang" incident represents the times for Jews: No justice, no chance. Ghetto life was a nightmare. Ghettos were almost the same as concentration camps, except for the lack of gas chambers. Jews fought, starved, and died trying to survive. It's funny how one man's ideas can totally obliterate a genuine race of humans.

The Elder of the Jews, Mordekhai Chaim Rumkowski was charged with the duties such as commercial and economic activities and assuring the steady supply of food, duties that were usually handled by the municipality or, in a free society, by the citizenry itself. Rumkowski served the Germans on penalty of death, meaning the Germans were no afraid to have a new Judenalteste run the ghetto if there needed to be one. To help him carry out his duties, Rumkowski was equipped with a police force made up of Jews who were likewise residents of the ghetto. This force was called the Order Service.

Originally, the ghettos were not supposed to be permanent institutions, but used as temporary concentration camps until it was possible to find the ultimate solution to the problem of disposing of al the Jews. The first known instance of establishment of a ghetto was in December of 1939 in a town called Leczyca in Poland when the Germans attempted to segregate the Jewish population from the Poles. A prominent example of the way in which large communities were depopulated was the fate of Kalisz, one of the oldest Jewish communities in Poland with a population of twenty thousand at the outbreak of the war. Both Germans and Poles joined in the brutal attacks against the Jews. The Jews had no chance. Many Jews fled, some seven thousand reaching Warsaw. The healthy men remaining in Kalisz were sent to work in the camp, while the ailing were slaughtered in a nearby forest. By October of 1940, only a few hundred Jews were left in the city.

The Germans knew perfectly well that Rumkowski could not possibly handle these jobs. The formula the Germans had devised was meant to ensure the maximum loss of population during the ghetto's existence. Forced to work without pay, the Jews would presumably self-destruct and disappear on their

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