Closure and Isolation
In the fall of 1939, the Nazis began to enclose the Jews in ghettos in Poland and in eastern Europe. By using the ghettos, the Nazis intended to isolate the Jews from the rest of the population and control their lives.
The ghettos were established in the poorer areas of the city. Jews who lived in the city were sent to the ghettos, and forbidden to leave them. Jews had to leave behind all that had been familiar to them– property, houses, streets – and move into a crowded and poor area.
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