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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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Family Life" in the Łódź Ghetto
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Food, Money, and Human Life"
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Jewish Religious Life and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"New-Kosher!"
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Jewish Community Documents
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"Report for the period from July 22 to September 30, 1942"
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"The English Disease"
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustAnonymous Diary from the Warsaw Ghetto
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustCircular Letter from the Jewish Community of Zagreb to the Jewish Communities of the Independent State of Croatia
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Experiences of Forced Labor in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustCircular on Preventing Prisoner Escapes
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Elvira Kohn
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Herzl Mazia
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Gender, Sexuality, and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Irene Hauser
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Jacques Berenholc
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American Witnesses and the Third Reich
Americans and the HolocaustEdward R. Murrow Broadcast from Buchenwald, April 15, 1945
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustFelix Noskowski and Willi Konrad, "A Birthday Epistle for Moritz Henschel"
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Experiences of Forced Labor in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustFilm of Forced Laborers in Transit
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American Witnesses and the Third Reich
Americans and the HolocaustFilm of General Dwight D. Eisenhower Visiting the Ohrdruf Camp
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Everyday Encounters with Fascism
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustFilm of Jewish Boycott in Austria
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American Christians, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust
Americans and the HolocaustInterview with Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill
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Experiences of Forced Labor in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustLabor Deployment of Soviet Prisoners of War
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Experiences of Forced Labor in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustLetter from a Forced Laborer to Her Family
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Adolf Renert to the National Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Croatia
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Barbara Falik to the PM Standard
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Boris Gurevich to his Mother and Sister
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from David Alkalaj to Miloje Popadić
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Displaced Persons and Postwar America
Americans and the HolocaustLetter from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Harry S. Truman, September 18, 1945
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Hilda Dajč to Nada Novak
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Jakob Kajon to the Jewish Community of Zagreb
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Julius Lewy to "the liberators"
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustLetter from Karl Kretschmer to His Family
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Ruth Goldbarth to Edit Blau
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Srećko Bujas to the Jewish Community of Zagreb
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Szyja Faktor to His Relatives
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Zbigniew Kelhoffer to Sydonia Kelhoffer
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter of Hinko Gottlieb to the Jewish Community of Zagreb
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Jewish Community Documents
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter of Selig Brodetsky and Leonard Stein to the British Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
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Jewish Community Documents
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter of the President of Jewish Community of Split to Colonel Vincenzo Cuiuli
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Jewish Community Documents
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustNote Regarding the German Policy of Deliberate Annihilation of European Jewry
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German Police and the Nazi Regime
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustOral History with Henry Kanner
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Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustOral History with Marcelle Duval
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Jewish Religious Life and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustPassover Haggadah from the Gurs Camp
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Jewish Religious Life and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustPassover Prayer from Bergen-Belsen
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Jewish Community Documents
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustPetition of Asna Zhurkovska
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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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Gender, Sexuality, and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustRecipes from the Cookbook of Eva Ostwalt
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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"