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The life in the Ghettos were terrible. The largest Ghetto in Poland was the Warsaw Ghettos. The Nazis gathered around 360,000 Jews in that particular area. Families were seperated. There were no privacy at all. It was awfully overcrowded. Spaces meant for for 10 people were shared between 50 or 80 people. It was difficuilt to keep clean. People living in the Ghettos were not given anything including soap. Diseases spread quickly, particularly typhus. This disease caused fever and death. People had to survive on just 300 calories a day- the same as are in two and a half slices of bread. Many starved to death or caught diseases as they were too weak from hunger to fight off. The first thing the Germans put up in Theresienstadt were big gallows(an instrument of execution). At mealtimes, people were surrounded by old people begging for food. The Germans considered people who were too old or weak to work as being 'useless mouths'. These people recieved almost no rations and usually died few weeks after arriving at Theresienstadt. Only 1% of the apartments in the Warsaw ghetto had running water. Fuel and food were in short supply. Anyone caught smuggling food or supplies into the ghetto was executed. Anyone caught trying to leave the ghetto without permission was also executed.