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What were Ghettos?
During the Holocaust, a ghetto was a special section of a city in which Jewish people were forced to live. The conditions of the Nazi created ghettos were horrible and unhealthy - usually cramped, dirty, and with little food. There were many ghettos throughout Europe during the Holocaust period. Some of these were the Amsterdam Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, and the Minsk Ghetto. However, the largest was the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, with about 400,000 people crammed into an area of about 2.5 square miles.


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