It was a containment zone. Everyone there was of the same religion. More or less the same education. More or less the some economic status. They weren’t allowed to leave.
There were special trains being arranged for them. To take them away from the city.
There were official guards at the three entrances. Food was distributed here. Chaos with the lines. 3.4 square kilometres for four lakh sixty thousand men women and children.
When the older ones started dying they had to take care of the burials themselves. The teachers among them were using the walls that hemmed them in as blackboards. For those who risked their lives stepping out of home. But you had to step out of home anyways for a toilet. 10 people to a room. To live. No one had worked out how many people one toilet could support yet. But whatever the statistic they were way beyond it.
There was a wooden footbridge over the wall that the men would sometimes go over at night. In search of food. Defying the sunset curfew.
The black market economy thrived, supplying as much as 80% of the food.
Men, women and children all took part in illegal trade, and private workshops were in buisness . Even with that there was unemployment. Unemployment that was leading to extreme poverty.
The deportation on a daily basis was via two shuttle trains: each transport carrying about 4,000 to 7,000 people crying for water.
That was Warsaw. Jüdischer Wohnbezirk in Warschau, "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; Polish: getto warszawskie) was the largest of all the Nazi ghettos during World War II.
Dharavi has an area of just over 2.1 square kilometres (0.81 sq mi; 520 acres)[3] and a population of about ten lakhs.
Nargis Dutt Nagar at Bandra no statistics yet but the density can't be very different from Dharavi.
All statistics from Wikipedia.
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