"I would sit in our apartment and see the Polish children across the street bringing milk home. C "It was like looking at people in a storybook - we had no food, no milk..." These words from Nelly Cesana, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto, are only a slight glimpse of the torture and of the neglect that Jews endured while living in Holocaust ghettos. The concept of separating people by religion actually began in the Middle Ages. By the time the Nazis came to power, ghettos were no longer used, but they revived the idea of ​​religious separation. The Nazis wanted Jews to be separated from the rest of the population, allowing them to practice their religion without impacting the rest of the population (Wood 58-59). While living in the ghettos, Jews lived very different lives, experiencing limited types of social conditions. interactions, poor living conditions, malnutrition and horrible health problems. While living in the confined spaces of the ghettos, Jews lived lives vastly different from those to which they were accustomed. Jews aged 12 and older living inside the ghetto walls were required to wear blue and white armbands more commonly known as the "badge of shame." These armbands were used to humiliate Jews and isolate them from Poles (“Daily Life in the Ghettos 6/7”). Pray and Praise: Jewish worship continued in the ghettos and was even more intense during the Holocaust, despite (or perhaps because of) the Nazis banning it. Many, like those who studied the texts Jews in the Krakow ghetto, made enormous sacrifices to practice their religion, running the risk of being caught (Bois 67) Schools and orphanages were run by the Judenraete (Bois 65). ... middle of paper ... the ghettos were just the beginning of the massive amounts of torture that Jews endured during the Holocaust Works Cited Wood, Angela Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People. . New York, NY: DK, 2007. Print. “Daily Life in the Warsaw Ghetto, Part 6/7: The ‘Bage of Shame’ and Cultural Life.” , nd Web April 14, 2014. Ayer, Elenor H. In the Ghettos: Teenagers Who Survived the Holocaust Ghettos. New York: Rosen Pub. Group, 1999. Print. Vashem, Yad. “Daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto, part 3/7: overcrowding.” Youtube. Yad Vashem, nd Web. April 14, 2014. Vashem, Yad. “Daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto, part 4/7: daily life and survival.” Yad Vashem, nd Web. April 14, 2014. Baumel-Shwartz, Judith Taylor. “Ghettos: hunger and disease”. The Holocaust Encyclopedia. Ed. Walter Lacquer. New Haven: Yale, UP, 2001. 259-65. Print.