Securing enough food to survive became a constant concern of many people during World War II and the Holocaust. Featuring prominently in many survivor accounts, hunger was an ever-present companion to those imprisoned in camps and ghettos.
food & hunger
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Jewish Community Documents
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustPetition of Meir Halle
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhoto of Quarantined Building in the Warsaw Ghetto
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Gendered Experiences of Jewish Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustRecipes from the Cookbook of Eva Ostwalt
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Concentration Camp Prisoners
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleTin Pail Made by a Prisoner in a Forced Labor Camp
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSC Shoah Foundation Oral History with Michael Kraus
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSC Shoah Foundation Oral History with Peter Feigl
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US Government Rescue Efforts
Americans and the HolocaustWar Refugee Board Director William O'Dwyer to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustWładysław Szlengel, "Bread"
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustWładysław Szlengel, "Final Exams"