ABSTRACT
The smugglers were frequently children and teens who were small enough or nimble enough to move into and out of tiny spaces, facilitating leaving and re-entering the ghetto undetected. The Nazis saw ghettos as a means of isolating the Jewish population from the outside world and from each other. In addition, ghettos made it easier for the Germans to control their captives and to facilitate deportations to the camps. Traditional roles were difficult to maintain. Ghetto residents competed for whatever forced labor jobs might be available in factories or workshops. The Warsaw Ghetto is perhaps best known for the uprising that occurred there as Jews, determined to resist the Nazis, put up a valiant fight. The ghetto had Jewish police, a prison, a court, a newspaper carrying information from the Jewish Council, its own money, an archive and a statistics department.
