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ghettosnoun
Plural form of ghetto.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Ghettos in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Ghettos in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of Ghettos in a Sentence
The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear Jewish stars, and people were herded and shut up into ghettos. Then, in the years '41 and '42 there was plenty of public evidence of pure sadism. With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.
The ghettos? You cannot count them on the fingers of your hand. Everyone is doing it because it is the only thing that works.
When journalists come here I want to talk about the good things, but they're not interested. They are interested in gangs, conflict and ghettos. It saddens me, only a few people create chaos, the rest of the inhabitants are good, polite family people. Unfortunately, a few people have ruined things for us.
They refuse to allow workers to bring food or water. They force them to pay 5 euros each for transport to the fields and to return to the ghettos to sleep at night. They sell food, panini for 3.50 euros and bottles of water for 1.50 euros, often they take workers' papers if they have any documents at all, using this as leverage to keep them from fleeing and making them a kind of slave. They charge them rent in the ghettos, they even make them pay for old tyres to burn for heat and warmth in winter.
Many of them were children, teenagers or young adults during the Holocaust, they were either in ghettos or concentration camps. So this night is giving them something back which they could never experience when they were young.
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- الأحياء اليهوديةArabic
- les ghettosFrench
- ghettoIndonesian
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