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What was a ""ghetto"" during WWII / the Holocaust? Who were the inhabitants of ghettos? What purpose did these places serve?

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Ghettos were often enclosed districts that isolated Jews from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities. German occupation authorities established the first ghetto in Poland in Piotrków Trybunalski in October 1939.

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Ghettos were places where Jews, and other minority groups segregated by the holocaust lived.

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