Repost from @ ministerinforming • *THIS VIDEO IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY* THE AMERICAN GHETTO: A HUMAN EXPERIMENTCities have been the sites for some of the world's most squalid conditions; yet, they are also where reformers have been most innovative. In recent years, the United States has seen some creative experimentation in tackling the most intractable of all urban dilemmas: the ghetto. We have asked some leading figures to reflect on the American experience and put it into global perspective. These ghettos were initially thought of as temporary holding spaces. The Nazis initial plan to remove Jews from Poland was to deport all Jews to the island of Madagascar. This was called The Madagascar Plan. On 8 October 1939, the first ghetto was opened at Piotrków. This was soon followed by the ghetto in Radomsko on 20 December 1939, and the first major ghetto in Łódź in February 1940. Over the following two years, hundreds of ghettos would be established across Poland. Reviving the Jewish ghetto made genocide a much simpler project. As the Holocaust proceeded, ghettos were emptied by the trainload. The prisoners of the enormous Warsaw ghetto, which at one point held 400,000 Jews, famously fought their deportation to death camps. They were outnumbered and undersupplied, but some managed to die on their own terms; thousands of Jews were killed within the walls of the ghetto, rather than in the camps. The word "ghetto" is an etymological mystery. Is it from the Hebrew get, or bill of divorce? From the Venetian ghèto, or foundry? From the Yiddish gehektes, "enclosed"? From Latin Giudaicetum, for "Jewish"? From the Italian borghetto, "little town"? From the Old French guect, "guard"? # moi # ministerofinformation # disciplines ✋🏾🤟🏾🖖🏿 https://www.instagram.com/p/CQI4rwVnCM-Sa1WOIqPp7ytCzctEIuIOrwRzn80/?utm_medium=tumblr
