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theatreangel31
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Please be aware that this is not a homework question, nor a means of getting answers for school. I was recently involved in a production of "The Diary of Anne Frank", and it provided significant inspiration for a story that I want to write, being an avid writer. However, there are blanks in my knowledge of the Holocaust that are vital to the story.
I need to know more about life in the Ghettos before the establishment of Operation Reinhard (the act that allowed the Nazis to deport the occupants of the ghettos to the actual concentration camps). I know all about the diseases and starvation that killed so many people in these ghettos, but I want to know more about their structure. For example, I know there is an assigned person to run the ghetto (the Judenrat, or Jewish Council) but what kind of work did they assign? Or, more specifically, what jobs did the children do? The younger girls? You do not have to be specific to one single ghetto, unless that makes it easier. (I haven't decided which ghetto the character in my story will be assigned to, only that it needs to be somewhere in Germany).
Please note that I am very, very interested in the Holocaust and I consider it very important to know the exact details. I have a feeling that my school teachers left out some specific information on purpose, so they wouldn't "scare us", so-to-speak. However, I can assure you that I am a mature student who can handle details as gruesome as I speculate these to be, because I consider it very important to know the exact details of history, not politically correct Spark notes versions.
Thank you very much for your help!
I need to know more about life in the Ghettos before the establishment of Operation Reinhard (the act that allowed the Nazis to deport the occupants of the ghettos to the actual concentration camps). I know all about the diseases and starvation that killed so many people in these ghettos, but I want to know more about their structure. For example, I know there is an assigned person to run the ghetto (the Judenrat, or Jewish Council) but what kind of work did they assign? Or, more specifically, what jobs did the children do? The younger girls? You do not have to be specific to one single ghetto, unless that makes it easier. (I haven't decided which ghetto the character in my story will be assigned to, only that it needs to be somewhere in Germany).
Please note that I am very, very interested in the Holocaust and I consider it very important to know the exact details. I have a feeling that my school teachers left out some specific information on purpose, so they wouldn't "scare us", so-to-speak. However, I can assure you that I am a mature student who can handle details as gruesome as I speculate these to be, because I consider it very important to know the exact details of history, not politically correct Spark notes versions.
Thank you very much for your help!