Ghetto Life
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Ghetto Life
Forced by the Nazis to relocate to the Krakow Ghetto,
Jews move their belongings in horse-drawn wagons.
Jews at forced labor constructing the wall around
the Krakow Ghetto that will seal them in.
Polish laborers seal off the doors and windows of
buildings on the outer boundary of the ghetto.
A group of Jews
chop up furniture to
use as fuel
in the Krakow
ghetto.
(1940-1943)
Jews wearing
armbands are
forced to shovel
snow from the
pavement in
Krakow.
A German policeman checks the identification
papers of Jews in the ghetto.
A member of the German police kicks a Jew who is
climbing onto the back of a truck during a round-up for
forced labor as two other Germans look in amusement.
A photo identification card,
bearing the official stamps of
the Krakow labor office.
Tiny Victim of Starvation -
Ghetto Life
Ghettos were a means to “contain”
all Jewish people in one area to
further “ease” their deportation to
camps later.
However, the ghettos were also
used to decimate the Jewish
population. If the Jews could be
killed before they had to be moved,
so much the better.
There was little or no food or fuel
and the Jews could not leave their
walled portion of the city without
risk of death.
Death was everywhere.
And if they
did not die of
starvation,
disease and
the cold took
them…
A Jewish woman and
her two young children
await deportation from
the Krakow ghetto.
Deportation usually meant to an
extermination camp, though they
wouldn’t know that at the time.
Jews from the
Krakow ghetto, who
have been rounded-
up for deportation,
are crowded onto
the back of a truck.
A column of Jews marches through the streets of
Krakow during the final liquidation of the ghetto. An
SS unit oversees the deportation action.
March, 1943. SS guards oversee a column of Jews with bundles
walking down a main street in Krakow during the final liquidation of
the ghetto.
April 19, 1943 - Waffen SS attacks Jewish Resistance in Warsaw Ghetto.
One of the most famous photos taken during the Holocaust shows Jewish
families arrested by Nazis during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto in
Poland, and sent to be gassed at Treblinka extermination camp. This picture
and over 50 others were taken by the Nazis to chronicle the successful
destruction of the Ghetto.
Assignment
• React to the photos of ghetto life – what are youremotions? Your thoughts? Etc.
• Why did Hitler want to consolidate Jews in onearea?
• How did ghettos contribute to Hitler’s “FinalSolution” of the Jewish problem? (ie: How didthe ghettos help to kill the Jews?)
• Why didn’t the Jews fight back?
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