The term ghetto, originally derived from the Venetian dialect in Italy in the 16th century, has multiple variations of meaning. The first perception of the word is “synonymous with segregation” (Bassi). The ghetto's first defining moment as a Jewish neighborhood occurred in Italy in the 16th century; however, the term directly correlates with the beginning of the horror that the Jewish population faced during the reign of Adolf Hitler. “No former ghetto experienced the terror and suffering of the ghettos under Hitler” (Weisel, After the Darkness 20). Under Hitler's terror, there were multiple ghettos in several cities in many countries of varying size and population. The ghettos also had different purposes; some were temporary housing until deportation to the Final Solution while others were intended for forced labor. Although life in the ghetto was much better than in a concentration camp, it shared the commonality of torment, fear, and death. Forces pushed the Jewish population by the thousands into segregated neighborhoods of a city. These areas, called ghettos, were small. The large Sighet ghetto described by Elie Wiesel in Night consisted of only four streets and was originally home to around ten thousand Jews. Families who had to move were only allowed to bring what they could carry, leaving the majority of their possessions and lives behind. Forced to return to the designated area, “fifteen to twenty-four people occupied a single room” (Fischthal). Living conditions were overcrowded and food scarce. In the Dąbrowa Górnicza ghetto, queuing for bread rations was the morning routine, but “for Jews and dogs there is no bread available” (quoted in Fischthal). Cut off from the rest of civilization, the Jews relied on the Nazis middle of paper......but this way of life was only temporary, they were doing their job to protect others from having to do so. do it. However, there was always the fear of deportation and never returning or worse, being shot on site. Part of the Jewish population was aware of what life in the ghetto meant for their future while others lived in illusion. The population of Sighet, easily influenced from the beginning by the courteous behavior of the Germans, believed in blind faith that no harm would come to them. However, Hanna Berliner Fischthal expresses the truth best: "the ghettos into which they [the Jews] were forced became temporary places of detention allowing the Germans...to easily round up the inhabitants for a final solution." If only they had known the final solution, they could have escaped. Instead, the majority were murdered and the rest endured years of pain and misery that will haunt them forever..