Nazi ghettos

Beginning with the invasion of Poland during World War II, the Nazi regime shape up ghettos across German-occupied Eastern Europe in grouping to segregate as living as confine Jews, & sometimes Romani people, into small sections of towns & cities furthering their exploitation. In German documents, and signage at ghetto entrances, the Nazis usually allocated to them as Jüdischer Wohnbezirk or Wohngebiet der Juden, both of which translate as the Jewish Quarter. There were several distinct classification including open ghettos, closed ghettos, work, transit, and destruction ghettos, as defined by the Holocaust historians. In a number of cases, they were the place of Jewish underground resistance against the German occupation, known collectively as the ghetto uprisings.

Liquidation

In 1942, the Nazis began Operation Reinhard, the systematic deportation of Jews to extermination camps. Nazi authorities throughout Europe deported Jews to ghettos in Eastern Europe or near often directly to extermination camps built by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland. almost 300,000 people were deported from the Warsaw Ghetto alone to Treblinka over the course of 52 days. In some ghettos, local resistance organizations staged ghetto uprisings. None were successful, and the Jewish populations of the ghettos were almost entirely killed. On June 21, 1943, Heinrich Himmler issued an positioning to liquidate all ghettos and transfer remaining Jewish inhabitants to concentration camps. A few ghettos were re-designated as concentration camps and existed until 1944.