“Bodies of men, women and children lay scattered in great disorder” (Life in the Ghettos 4-5). Others lay mortally wounded, screaming for help, moaning in pain, with head wounds or limbs torn from their bodies. Ghettos began in 1939. During the Holocaust, a ghetto was a special section of a city where Jews were forced to live. Jews in the ghettos were identified by the yellow badges they wore. Inside the ghetto, people's lives oscillated in the desperate struggle between survival and death from disease or starvation. There were several families living in one apartment and the Germans were trying to starve them. Life in the ghettos was unbearable. The Germans tried to starve the Jews by allowing them to purchase very small amounts of food such as fat, potatoes and bread (Life in the Ghettos). They controlled all food activity. The Germans sealed the ghettos so that not even an ounce of extra food could get through. A wall was built on each side. They were very strict about the food intake of Jews living in the ghettos. People were given to live on 180 grams of bread a day, 220 grams of sugar a month, 1/2 kg. of honey, 1 kg. of jam, etc. (Warsaw Ghetto). It didn't even cover ten percent of normal needs. This led ghetto inhabitants to smuggling. Even if smuggling led to death, families did it at any cost to survive. Children aged five to six often try to make themselves useful through smuggling for their families. It was easier for them because they were small enough to fit through the barbed wire and the small tunnels that had been dug (Warsaw Ghetto). Living on a 253 calorie diet every day made them very weak and sick. Not only were they... middle of paper... they left their homes. A special children's playground was also built. In conclusion, life in the ghettos was unbearable. People were dying all the time, because they were forced to starve and live in terrible living conditions. Most prisoners lost about a third of their body weight. The Jews in the ghettos suffered greatly. They were forced into daily labor and worked up to twelve hours a day. Although they were weakened by daily life, they still enjoyed everything they could find. Study, music and theater served them as an escape. Those who tried to hide in the hiding places prepared for their loved ones in the cellars were soon discovered by specially trained dogs. In 1944, when the Germans began to lose the war, the remaining Jews were deported to concentration camps or died by being murdered..