The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw, Lodz And, Krakow Ghettos During World War II (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009100083)

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 from this intentional starvation impacted every aspect of Jewish life inside the ghettos. This book focuses on the Jews in the Lź, Warsaw, and Krak 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 attempted to survive the deadly conditions of Nazi ghettoization through a range of coping mechanisms and survival strategies. In this book, Helene Sinnreich explores their story, drawing from diaries and first-hand accounts of the victims and survivors. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author: Helene J. Sinnreich
ISBN-10: 1009100084
ISBN-13: 9781009100083
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/16/2023
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2023