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OCR: Ghetto which has gradually come to mean any area where a group is isolated from the main society was originally the name of the Jewish neighborhood established in Venice Italy in 1516. that era Jews in some European towns were confined to neighborhoods which were surrounded walis and iocked nightiy and during holidavs GETTO This practice was abolished across Europe in the 19th century During World War II. the Nazis re -established ghettos as places concentrate imprison and expioit populations of Jews before deporting them to concentration camps and death camps. The Nazis carefully controlled the living conditions in the ghettos relying on disease and starvation eliminate as many Jews possible Paula lived in the Ostrowiec Ghetto ir Poland for four years. Bert and his family were deported fr ...