ghettos

1. Originally, areas of medieval cities in which Jews (see also Jews) were compelled to live. Today the term usually refers to sections of American cities inhabited by the poor. (See inner city.)

Example Sentences

After the exhibition’s stark presentation on Jewish ghettos, Nazi killing squads and concentration camps, the class photo reappears.

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Others were played to pass the time in Jewish ghettos.

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It is not clear exactly how many Jews survived the death camps, the ghettos or somewhere in hiding across Nazi-occupied Europe, but their numbers were a far cry from the pre-war Jewish population in Europe.

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The susceptibility to QAnon-type conspiracy theories on the right reflects the geographic ghettos and echo chamber in which many of these folks live.

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The ghettos in German-occupied countries during World War II were open-air prisons where Jews were killed, starved and died from diseases.

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