Warsaw Ghetto
Theresienstadt
Theresienstadt Ghetto
propaganda film for the Germans
Theresienstadt was modified to appear pleasant
Overflow and overcrowding deporting to Auschwitz for extermination.
Fake stores a bank and schools were decorated all over the camp.
Flowers were planted and
commission left the camp and the
film was presented to the world
All the participants and their families were sent to the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
Roman Halter
Testimonial
7 of 7 children
Poland
12 years old in 1939
Halter and his family were sent to Lodz for 120 people
His grandfather, parents and Aunt with 2 of her children
Family members taken out and shot
Lodz was a political camp
plenty and the rest with nothing
camp starvation and death
Survived the selection.
Ghettos
Types of Ghettos
cooperate or death
Council members compile lists for deportation, forced-labor camps, and killing
camps.
Council members choose compliance to ensure race would survive.
Shanghai China
Living conditions meager
Early arrivals managed to survive and thrive in Shanghai
Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
stateless Jews to live with in a designated area
Jews were ignored and left alone to survive as they could
allowed live in small apartments
poor sanitation and meager food
wartime conditions but life went on
Shanghai Jews survived Holocaust
Shanghai's Jewish
Community different
War time conditions.
allowed privileges
religious ceremonies
stateless Jews were put into ghettos
survived the Holocaust