During World War II, German racial policy designated Jews 'useless eaters', and denied them sufficient food for survival. This book reveals how the hunger which resulted from this intentional starvation impacted every aspect of Jewish life inside the ghettos as people tried to survive through a range of coping mechanisms and survival strategies.
During World War II, German racial policy designated Jews 'useless eaters', and denied them sufficient food for survival. This book reveals how the hunger which resulted from this intentional starvation impacted every aspect of Jewish life inside the ghettos as people tried to survive through a range of coping mechanisms and survival strategies.
Helene J. Sinnreich is director of the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is co-editor-in-chief of the academic journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies and was the founding editor of the Journal of Jewish Identities. She has served as a fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. and at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. She is editor of A Story of Survival: The Lodz Ghetto Diary of Heinek Fogel (2015).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. The Nazi invasion: violence, displacement, and expropriation 2. Jewish leadership 3. The supply and distribution of food: strategies and priorities 4. The physical, mental, and social effects of hunger 5. Hunger and everyday life in the ghetto 6. Socioeconomic status and food access 7. Relief systems and charity 8. Illicit food access: smuggling, theft, and the black market 9. Labor and food in the ghettos 10. Deportations and the end of the ghettos Conclusion Appendix: List of kitchens and food distribution sites in the Warsaw ghetto.
Introduction 1. The Nazi invasion: violence, displacement, and expropriation 2. Jewish leadership 3. The supply and distribution of food: strategies and priorities 4. The physical, mental, and social effects of hunger 5. Hunger and everyday life in the ghetto 6. Socioeconomic status and food access 7. Relief systems and charity 8. Illicit food access: smuggling, theft, and the black market 9. Labor and food in the ghettos 10. Deportations and the end of the ghettos Conclusion Appendix: List of kitchens and food distribution sites in the Warsaw ghetto.
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