"These restrictions [ghettos] were imposed with the intention of protecting the aryan population against the Jews."
- The SS and Police in the District of Warsaw
Ghettos were in closed areas in the city, where Jews were forced to live under close watch. They were given a certain amount of food each day, and forced to live under terrible conditions. Many were forced to perform hard labor and some were sent to concentration camps from there. Most who failed to carry out the orders of the officers were killed on the spot and many also just from starvation.
"I remember the fear, of never feeling safe. You had to hide constantly. And the hunger -- I would sit in our apartment and look out the window, 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..." - Nelly Cesana |