The atrocity of hunger : : starvation in the Warsaw, Łódź, and Kraków ghettos during World War II / / Helene J. Sinnreich, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ;, New York, NY : : Cambridge University Press,, 2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 294 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Feb 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.