ghetto

In 1943, she, the remaining members of her family and some 250 other prisoners dug a 600-foot underground tunnel using spoons to escape the Jewish ghetto, as he recounted in another Colossus podcast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

He has spoken of how Palestinian artists lived in a "cultural ghetto" and how he was influenced by a book showing works of the Mexican painter Diego Rivera.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

“He could relate to my problems, my environment. The drive, the determination, not to give in to the ghetto, to make something of my life, stems from my relations with him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

Afterward, a group of children come to the dressing room, with a criticism: “In the ghetto, that’s not how it was,” says one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

When they recognized me, they were as excited as I was, hardly daring to believe that I had made it out of the ghetto.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

“Writing a lullaby helped to preserve the maternal aura that had to be maintained in ghettoes and camps with large populations of women and children.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

Exhibit A: Catch a Fire opener Concrete Jungle’s powerfully bleak reportage, allegedly written not about Kingston’s ghettoes, but Marley’s mid-60s stay in the US.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2020

Trick Baby,”, which centers on a biracial pimp whose light skin allows him to move through both black ghettoes and white high society, is an adroit exposé of race and class in America.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 19, 2015

Over the past decade, as gay people have become more accepted and gay ghettoes have begun to empty out, I’ve noticed that the extremely muscled gay aesthetic has begun to fade away, especially among twenty-somethings.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2012

I don’t know if you know it, but there’s a whole circuit of commercial gospel entertainers who have come out of these little churches in the city ghettoes or from down South.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Following World War I, fantastic “art” was largely identified with Surrealism, while popular fantasy was mostly quartered within the new mass-market ghettos of pulps, comics, film marketing and paperback books.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Others were played to pass the time in Jewish ghettos.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

It is not clear exactly how many Jews survived the death camps, the ghettos or somewhere in hiding across Nazi-occupied Europe, but their numbers were a far cry from the pre-war Jewish population in Europe.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

The Jewish physician survivors were able to tell the histories of Jewish medical resistance in the ghettos and camps.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 9, 2023

I pulled her close and whispered in Polish: “There were no ghettos, no armbands. I often fell asleep to a breeze floating through my open window. It’s true. It was like that once.”

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys