Daily Routine at a Ghetto

Mrs. Charlene Schiff lived in a ghetto in Horochow for a long time until she escaped with her mother, who she never saw again. Mrs. Schiff's town was taken by the Nazi's in 1941 when she was very young. Her hometown of Horochow was turned into a ghetto. Living in a ghetto was not as bad as a death camp, but it was still a terrible place.

In a ghetto people where forced to live in terrible living conditions, with very little resources needed to survive. Here are some hardships Mrs. Schiff and other Jews living in ghettos encountered.

• Seeing people killed by guards and officers of the ghetto
• Children had to smuggle food into the ghetto to feed their families, and if they did not survive, their families starved to death in the ghetto
• People were treated cruelly and like animals, they were tortured and starved, even killed. Some unlucky people where even killed for strange reasons.

Mrs. Schiff escaped the ghetto, and she was to go to a farmers house to live with him, so she escaped with her mother and sister, and she hid in a river. She fell asleep for a while and when she awoke, her mother was gone. She went in search of her mother, but she was never found. Fortunately, Mrs. Schiff is still alive today.