Students will use a timeline to get information about Jewish ghettos.

• Students will look at the timeline on the Spread the Light website for information about several Jewish ghettos.
• Students will consider questions about the ghettos.

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Look at the timeline on the Spread the Light website for answers to these questions:

• How many Jews are locked inside the Lodz Ghetto in Poland in April of 1940?
• In November of 1940, the Krakow Ghetto is sealed with how many Jews inside? How many are sealed in the Warsaw Ghetto on that same month?
• In June of 1943, what happens to the ghettos in Poland and Russia?

Read your answers in class. Discuss the questions below.

• What do you think of when you hear the word ghetto? Does it have the same meaning as Jewish ghettos? Why or why not?
• What was the purpose of putting Jews into ghettos?
• At first, some people found comfort in the ghettos. Why would that be? Why didn’t that comfort last long?