Sections of towns and cities that the German occupation authorities and their allies used to concentrate, exploit, and starve regional Jewish populations.

1610s, "part of a city in which Jews are compelled to live," especially in Italy, from Italian ghetto "part of a city to which Jews are restricted," of unknown origin. The various [..]

low-income urban neighborhood populated by members of a minority group.

an area, usually in slum condition, where an ethnic group is dominant.

In its original meaning, the area of a town or city where Jews were required to live, although there was nothing to prevent non-Jews also residing there. Under the Nazis, the ghetto became a very clea [..]

The Nazis revived the medieval ghetto in creating their compulsory "Jewish Quarter" (Wohnbezirk). The ghetto was a section of a city where all Jews from the surrounding areas were fo [..]

A Yiddish word referring to a walled section of a city in which Jews were required to live during the Middle Ages. The concept was revived by the Nazi regime as part of the "Final Solution" [..]

The term originally referred to a type of inner-city concentration camp for Jews. First developed by the Roman Catholic Church, the concept was later adopted by Hitler during the German Nazi regime. T [..]

A section of a city occupied predominantly by members of a single racial or ethnic group, usually because of social or economic pressure.

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an urban district containing a high proportion of one particular ethnic group. The term ghetto comes from the district of Geto in medieval Venice which was reserved for Jews.

The geographical concentration of social groups. Tends to imply a high degree of involuntary segregation. Usually applied to ethnic minorities but may also refer to older people, gays and lesbians, si [..]

an area of a city that is often rundown.

Originally, any defined area within a European city beyond which Jews were not legally entitled to take up residence. More recently, any underdeveloped urban  enclave whose inhabitants are isolated ec [..]

In 1516, the first ghetto was established on the site of an iron foundry (the meaning of the word ghetto) by the rulers of Venice as a segregated quarter where Jews were legally required to take up re [..]

, a Yiddish word referring to a walled section of a city in which Jews were required to live during the Middle Ages. The concept was revived by the Nazi regime as part of the Final Solution to the Jew [..]

(n) formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live(n) any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping(n) a poor densely pop [..]

An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law.concentrating the Jewish community into ghettoes. The Germans not only started the ghettoes, but they had also opened [..]

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