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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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
"Family Life" in the Łódź Ghetto
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
"Food, Money, and Human Life"
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
"Guidelines for the Treatment of Political Commissars"
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
"New-Kosher!"
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
"Report for the period from July 22 to September 30, 1942"
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
"The English Disease"
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Anonymous Diary from the Warsaw Ghetto
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Circular Letter from the Jewish Community of Zagreb to the Jewish Communities of the Independent State of Croatia
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Circular on Preventing Prisoner Escapes
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Diary of Elvira Kohn
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Diary of Herzl Mazia
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Diary of Irene Hauser
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Diary of Jacques Berenholc
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
Drawings by Alexei Mikhailovich Pankin
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Americans and the Holocaust
Edward R. Murrow Broadcast from Buchenwald, April 15, 1945
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Felix Noskowski and Willi Konrad, "A Birthday Epistle for Moritz Henschel"
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Film of Forced Laborers in Transit
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Americans and the Holocaust
Film of General Dwight D. Eisenhower Visiting the Ohrdruf Camp
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Film of Jewish Boycott in Austria
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
German Film of Soviet Prisoners of War on the Eastern Front
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Americans and the Holocaust
Interview with Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Labor Deployment of Soviet Prisoners of War
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Letter from a Forced Laborer to Her Family
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Adolf Renert to the National Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Croatia
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Barbara Falik to the PM Standard
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Boris Gurevich to his Mother and Sister
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from David Alkalaj to Miloje Popadić
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Americans and the Holocaust
Letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Harry S. Truman, September 18, 1945
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Hilda Dajč to Nada Novak
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Jakob Kajon to the Jewish Community of Zagreb
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Julius Lewy to "the liberators"
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Letter from Karl Kretschmer to His Family
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Ruth Goldbarth to Edit Blau
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Srećko Bujas to the Jewish Community of Zagreb
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Szyja Faktor to His Relatives
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Zbigniew Kelhoffer to Sydonia Kelhoffer
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter of Hinko Gottlieb to the Jewish Community of Zagreb
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter of Selig Brodetsky and Leonard Stein to the British Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter of the President of Jewish Community of Split to Colonel Vincenzo Cuiuli
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Note Regarding the German Policy of Deliberate Annihilation of European Jewry
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Oral History with Henry Kanner
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Oral History with Marcelle Duval
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Passover Haggadah from the Gurs Camp
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Passover Prayer from Bergen-Belsen
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Petition of Asna Zhurkovska
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Petition of Meir Halle
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Photo of Quarantined Building in the Warsaw Ghetto
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Recipes from the Cookbook of Eva Ostwalt
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
Tin Pail Made by a Prisoner in a Forced Labor Camp
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
USC Shoah Foundation Oral History with Michael Kraus
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
USC Shoah Foundation Oral History with Peter Feigl
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Americans and the Holocaust
War Refugee Board Director William O'Dwyer to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Władysław Szlengel, "Bread"
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Władysław Szlengel, "Final Exams"