Ghetto
The term ghetto is used to refer a poor and undeveloped part of a city where members of an oppressed minority group are forced to live, due either to brutal force used by totalitarian regimes, or by social and economic pressures in democratic society.[1] The term originated in 16th century Venice, where Jewish people were segregated and lived in the Venetian Ghetto.
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Venetian Ghetto
The Venetian Ghetto
Nazi ghettos
During WW2, the Nazis setup a system of mass discrimination against Jewish people and others deemed undesirable for racial reasons. Officially the Nazi ghettos
There were several distinct types of Nazi ghettos, and they were used for different purposes in the Holocaust. Initially, the Germans organised "open ghettos", which despite the name were not fully open. This later moved to increased numbers of walled "closed ghettos", where escape was a capital offense. The final solution involved extermination camps, where Jewish people and others were murdered, and the eventual mass murder of almost all occupants of the Nazi ghettos in Operation Reinhard.
External links
- See the Wikipedia article on Ghetto.
- In The Ghetto, sung by Elvis Presley on YouTube
References
- Merriam Webster; Definition of Ghetto.
- The New York Times; David Laskin, March 9, 2016: 500 Years of Jewish Life in Venice.
- The Guardian; Marie-José Gransard, March 20, 2016: 500 years of the Venetian ghetto: commemoration and history.
- The Holocaust Encyclopedia; Ghettos.