Previously published under the title: The Holocaust ghettos. Springfield, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1998 Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-90, 93) and index.
Contents:
September 1939: the horror begins -- Governing the ghetto -- The shape of our days -- Matters of life and death -- Living in the cracks -- Legacies of courage -- The beginning of the end.
Summary:
Ghettos were set up by the Nazis to isolate and segregate Jews from other members of the population. Author Linda Jacobs Altman details the hardships of ghetto life under Nazi rule in this book. Set up in many countries including Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Belorussia, and Czechoslovakia, the author describes how the Jews kept alive their cultural and religious lives despite the poverty and hardships of ghetto life. Also included are accounts of the revolts by those who dared to fight back.
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