by: Shaliff Pearson
This is a beggar that died from starvation. This is evidence on what is happening in the Warsaw ghetto.
Shaliff Pearson
Mrs. Maslow
5/3/02
Hunger and starvation
In Warsaw ghetto
People of the U.S. have to know what is going on in Europe. We were moved to ghettos in Warsaw Poland. Me, and my family live with fifteen other families. The food we receive is in rations. We get a very small amount of food per day and I am scared to death.
People in the ghetto are poor, homeless, and beggars. Thousands of people died from exhaustion, disease. The ghetto name for food is called bona because they give you so little food. The food got so scarce, that families had stop inviting guests over for dinner. The food was so rare, that one night they saw a boy pick up something from the dirt and eat it. About 1,200,000 Jews died from starvation. In the prisons most of the prisoners died from starvation. The rations they were giving daily for soup was about 500 g daily compared to 3000 g the Germans were getting.
One lady committed suicide by jumping from the fifth fifth floor of the building into the courtyard. She landed in a big pot where fish were being prepared. The pot collapsed and pieces of her brain were all over the fish being prepared. The little children came from all over grabbing the fish gulping down into their mouth with some of her brain on it.
One day, a girl was taking her sick mother feces to be examined at the doctor at the doctor office. Then the jar was being taken from her and a starving man had swallowed the contents. This was usual to do. When the people were hungry, they ate anything edible.
Families would put the dead body out there and use their ration cards to get more food for the family. When the family has a funeral, the ration cards are useless.
The conditions in the prisons were horrible. It was like a concentration camp in the prison alone. Many died from frequent cases of starvation diarrhea, which had been a sign of death. The Nazi government had put about 1,200,000 Jews to death because of starvation.
The rationing began in about Dec. 1939. The amount of bread they received daily was 500 gm. Then it was cut to 200 gm. The poles received 570 gms. Jews received no sugar but the poles received limited amounts.
Some Jews pretended to be a Christian so they could receive more food. The Germans had received 2613 calories daily which is 25 times more than the Jews.
Bibliography
Roland, Charles. "Hunger and Starvation in the ghettos." Chapter 6. Apr 2002. may 2002. May 2002. <www.remember.org/courage>.
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