The typical overcrowded house would frequently hold up to as many as four to five, and in some cases even more, families living in there at the same time, even though they may have only a limited number of beds and only a modest amount of rooms. This meant that, partially due to a lack of medicine and cleanliness, if one person in the house fell sick, everybody else became infected as well. Fatal illnesses like the flu, typhus, and small pox overran the ghettos, infecting a large percentage of the people that lived there. “This, along with malnutrition, turned out to be the element that killed the vast majority of Jews living in these ghettos” (Ghettos: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Disease was not the only considerable cause of death in these Overpopulation became an extensive dilemma in some of the larger ghettos like Warsaw and Lodz. An investigation of the Lodz ghetto, done by the Judenrat, discovered a household that had a room with “only three small beds in it that had 17 people sleeping in there at once. The report stated that there were an astonishing four people sleeping in each bed whereas everyone else had to find comfort on the floor” (The Holocaust Explained, Conditions within the
The typical overcrowded house would frequently hold up to as many as four to five, and in some cases even more, families living in there at the same time, even though they may have only a limited number of beds and only a modest amount of rooms. This meant that, partially due to a lack of medicine and cleanliness, if one person in the house fell sick, everybody else became infected as well. Fatal illnesses like the flu, typhus, and small pox overran the ghettos, infecting a large percentage of the people that lived there. “This, along with malnutrition, turned out to be the element that killed the vast majority of Jews living in these ghettos” (Ghettos: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Disease was not the only considerable cause of death in these Overpopulation became an extensive dilemma in some of the larger ghettos like Warsaw and Lodz. An investigation of the Lodz ghetto, done by the Judenrat, discovered a household that had a room with “only three small beds in it that had 17 people sleeping in there at once. The report stated that there were an astonishing four people sleeping in each bed whereas everyone else had to find comfort on the floor” (The Holocaust Explained, Conditions within the