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Anonymous asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 1 decade ago

Stuck between two answers on a holocaust (ghetto) question please help!?

If anyone could help i'd be most greatful! Thanks

My question is this:

What purpose did the "Ghettos" serve in Nazi Germany?

I know it's one of these two answers. I thought it was A, but now i'm not sure. Does anyone know for definite?

a)Temporary holding area for the Jewish people

b)Concentration camps for the Jews

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    It's A. The Jews were kept in the ghettos until they could be transported to concentration camps.

  • 1 decade ago

    Basically, your question is not well stated. Ghetto is an Italian Island off Venice to which all the Venetian Jews (Sephardic Jews) had to be at sunset each day with the gates closed. The word for the Jewish villages, or the Jewish parts of town in N. Europe (Askanzi Jews) were called Shtetls and the conditions were much similar to Ghetto.

    Neither the Ghetto Jews of Venice nor the Shtet Jews of N. Eruope under normal circumstances were temporarily incarcerated. That would have been in holding camps prior to their transfer to concentration camps.

  • Jen M
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Read some books about the Holocaust and you will find out that the Ghetto is where Jews lived before they were sent to Concentration camps.

    See, the Jews lived somewhat mixed in with everyone else though I think they had communities that many of them would live...then Hitler proclaimed that all Jews must wear a star on their clothes. Then they were told that they must live in a certain place called a Ghetto and then they were taken to Concentration Camps.

    I don't know that the Ghetto's were named per se...but the Concentration Camps were.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Personally I would go "none of the above" because a oversimplifies the issue, but A. it is. Ghettos were not concentration camps. They were gated communities (often the poorest areas of a town) in which Jews were forced to live.

    Source(s): high school history
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  • 1 decade ago

    Its A. The Ghettos were a holding area and after "the final solution" concentration camps were born.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    They were horrible temporary holding areas for the Jewish people. Terrible places.

  • 1 decade ago

    A

  • 1 decade ago

    A.

    Source(s): paid attention in history class!
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