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

The last young Bundists to remain in the ghetto joined the Zionists in the Jewish Combat Organization, which had obtained 10 revolvers from the Home Army.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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

One black TikTok user from Croydon called C.Tino posted a response, saying the trend falsely portrayed the area as "ghetto".

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

Once inside the ghetto, we made our way to our new home, a building at Lwowska 18.

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

And he did so when ghettoes were in revolt and black Americans had become an object of worldwide fascination.

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

After the exhibition’s stark presentation on Jewish ghettos, Nazi killing squads and concentration camps, the class photo reappears.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2025

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

The partisans entered ghettos under siege and brought Jews back to the Belarusian forest, where Mr. Bielski had built a community for them.

From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2023

It was the largest of many ghettos across occupied Poland.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton’s book, American Apartheid, documents how racially segregated ghettos were deliberately created by federal policy, not impersonal market forces or private housing choices.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander