The atrocity of hunger : starvation in the Warsaw, Łódź, and Kraków Ghettos during World War II / Helene J. Sinnreich, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023
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
Summary
"This book focuses on the Jews in the Łódź, Warsaw, and Kraków ghettos as they struggled to survive the deadly Nazi ghetto and in particular, the genocidal famine conditions. Jews had no control over Nazi food policy but they could-and did-attempt to survive the deadly conditions of Nazi ghettoization through a range of coping mechanisms and survival strategies. This book tells their story"-- Provided by publisher
