s were rounded up into confined areas of a city. The Nazis would then seal off the areas from the rest of the city by placing barbed wire and stone walls around the area. These ghetto areas were extremely over crowded and the conditions were horrible. Sanitation and necessary supplies were inadequate.
"Never was so unique or elaborate a smuggling system put into operation as that devised by the Ghetto Jews in their struggle to survive. The official food ration barely sustained life for two or three days a month, and smugglers consequently became the Ghetto's most important citizens, its heroes, for though there were a thousand ruses, a smuggler risked his life in employing any one of them."
These ghettos only lasted a short period of time and were soon being replaced around 1942. The replacements were not much better. In fact, the writer believes the replacement, death camps, to be the cruelest act ever recorded.
Death camps were not a place you would want to be if you were a Jew or minority. The nightmare began with the journey to the camp. Hundreds of people were shoved into small boxcars on trains and transported to the camps. The following describes the inhumane conditions in th
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