Examples Of Mccarthyism In Ghettos

The Jewish Struggle in Ghettos

By mid-1941, almost all Jews in occupied Poland had been forced into these overcrowded districts. This meant Jews living in Poland at that time had barely enough food, water, and clothing to survive, as so many people were put into one area to live. The reason for this was that the Nazis wanted to control the Jews and their whereabouts. The Nazis and Germans disliked the Jews, because they believed they were a source of “racial pollution.” Although people across Europe tried to help Jews escape the ghettos, they were unable to do so because the Nazis controlled most of Europe, created policies for Jews in ghettos, and living conditions were terrible for Jews. During the holocaust, Jews did not receive much help in escaping

Based on Chapter Seven “Ghetto Life and Death in the East “ of “The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution” it talks about the Nazi ghetto policy saying “The best solution would apparently still be the removal of the Jews to some other place. So long, however, as the Jews are still present here, the course of action adopted in Warsaw would seem to be the most appropriate to seal off the Jews as much as possible from their surroundings, to exploit their labor, according to plan, and to allow them to the widest latitude in regulating their own affairs” (Beorn 152). The Nazis set this policy so they could keep track of where the Jews were, so they could prepare for the Final Solution. This made it hard for people across Europe to help them escape, because they were always being watched or checked on daily, and the Jews were told to stay in their ghettos. Lastly Jews were put in an impossible situation, they were basically enclosed in a community, and were forced to work, even if people across Europe tried to help them escape the Nazis would probably catch them