After reading the chapters five thorough eight of Ruth Minsky Sender’s novel “The Cage,” she gives a first person perspective of the ghettos during the reign of Hitler and the Holocaust in Lodz, Poland. A ghetto is a place where mass numbers of people live in below living conditions, often diseased, mal nourished and low income workers live there. She describes the ghetto as a “barbed-wire cage” with “one hundred eighty thousand Jewish men, women and children” crammed into it (Minsky 32 & 28). Disease would spread person to person like wildfire, “tuberculosis and dysentery hit every home… taking hundreds each day” (Minsky 30). It is very apparent that the living conditions of the ghettos are horrendous but considering most Jewish homes didn’t have heating and the cold of Poland caused more sickness and little were able to survive. One may think to just start a fire but, “there is no coal or wood left to keep the [houses] warm” and stealing will lead to a punishment (Minsky 32). Every home was in panic and terror for the Nazis could come at any minute and choose their fault of survive and separation. Many families were separated from each other never to see each other again or they saw their loved ones die from the inside outside from disease.

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