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The Atrocity of Hunger Helene J. Sinnreich (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

The Atrocity of Hunger By Helene J. Sinnreich (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

The Atrocity of Hunger by Helene J. Sinnreich (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)


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Summary

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.

The Atrocity of Hunger Summary

The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw, Lodz and, Krakow Ghettos during World War II by 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 from this intentional starvation impacted every aspect of Jewish life inside the ghettos. This book focuses on the Jews in the odz, Warsaw, and Krakow 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.

The Atrocity of Hunger Reviews

'This is a wonderful book on an important yet understudied topic. Using the themes of food and hunger to analyze everyday life and experience in three Nazi ghettoes, Sinnreich significantly expands our understanding of Jewish experience during the Holocaust. Her careful attention to the symbolic, social, and material functions of food is especially impressive.' Alice Weinreb, Loyola University Chicago
'The book explores how socioeconomic status, gender, and religion affected access to food. It also depicts Jewish communal and individual efforts to smuggle, barter, or steal in order to stave off food deprivation. Highly recommended.' M. Rice, Choice

About Helene J. Sinnreich (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

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).

Table of Contents

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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9781009100083
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The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw, Lodz and, Krakow Ghettos during World War II by Helene J. Sinnreich (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2023-02-16
300
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