a) See the definition of 'ghetto' in the glossary. What problems might have arisen when large numbers of people, forced from their homes at a moment's notice, were crowded into these relatively small areas?
b) Why did the Germans force the Jews into these ghettos?

Arriving at a ghetto

c) If you were forced from your home and told to take only what you could carry, what would you take? What sorts of things would the Jews have in their bundles?
d) What do you think happened to the Jews' former homes?
e) How do you think you would feel if you had been sent to the ghetto, not knowing how long you were going to stay?

f) It is 1943 and you have just heard the following details about the events in Warsaw: "The Germans had two reasons for moving Jews to the ghettos. At first they hoped the Jews might simply die off there by 'natural attrition', and later the ghettos were an easy way to collect Jews for deportation to the death camps." Write a letter to a major newspaper responding to this information.