The atrocity of hunger starvation in the Warsaw, Łódź, and Kraków ghettos during World War II
During World War II, the Germans put the Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland into ghettos which restricted their movement and, most crucially for their survival, access to food. The Germans saw the Jews as 'useless eaters,' and denied them sufficient food for survival. The hunger which resulted f...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cambridge University Press
2023
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Table of Contents:
- The Nazi Invasion: Violence, Displacement, and Expropriation
- Jewish Leadership
- The Supply and Distribution of Food: Strategies and Priorities
- The Physical, Mental, and Social Effects of Hunger
- Hunger and Everyday Life in the Ghetto
- Socioeconomic Status and Food Access
- Relief Systems and Charity
- Illicit Food Access: Smuggling, Theft, and the Black Market
- Labor and Food in the Ghettos
- Deportations and the End of the Ghettos