Sentences with 'ghetto'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ghetto and other words derived from it.
• « The largest ghettos were in the large Polish cities of Warsaw and Lodz; the Warsaw ghetto alone housed more than 400,000 Jews at its peak in late 1941. »
• « The Treblinka extermination camp alone killed at least 800,000 people, most of whom were sent from the huge Warsaw ghetto. The millions of Jews who had been in Poland and the Russian territories to the west were murdered at a staggering, completely unprecedented rate. »
• « Although the Allied authorities were able to piece together the basic features of the Holocaust, several aspects remained obscure for decades. Most survivors were deeply hesitant to talk about what they had been through, and even in the newly founded Jewish state of Israel, most attention focused on acts of resistance of symbolic importance, such as the famous Warsaw ghetto uprising of the Jews in 1944, rather than on the millions who died. »
• « In 1959, at the age of 13, I was a poor black boy living with his mother and stepfather in a small black ghetto on Long Island, New York. »