Starvation In Ghetto

The Jewish community in the Ghetto were faced with many harsh treatments and the pressing unknown future. Since there was so many people inside the ghetto over fifty-five thousand people many were abandoned in the streets. Those that were able to get off of the streets were cramped inside of cellars, synagogues, schools, cinemas, and various other open spaces with several others. It was common for an individual to share an apartment room with more than seven other people. The Nazis wanted to create the ghettos to naturally kill off the Jews through processes of overcrowding which caused starvation. Starvation was so prevalent that people barely had enough money for simple necessities such as water and bread to feed their families. Many
people risked their lives to smuggle food and money for their families to get by to see another day and would have to continue to risk their lives. People inside the ghettos on average only ate one hundred and eighty-four calories which was well under starving rate while the people outside the walls ate over two thousand calories a day. Neutral countries in the war tried to send food to the ghettos that were in desperate need. Switzerland sent cocoa, coffee, and meats in tin plates to help feed the people. The Ghettos were traditionally split with those very few that were well fed because they worked with the Nazis, the in-between, and those that were the most common were the ones that were starving. Along with starvation disease spread rapidly through the ghetto. Typhus and Cholera went through the ghettos due to poor sanitation in city. However, the disease did not travel outside of the walls of the ghetto in Warsaw, so it is believed that the Nazis intended the disease to occur knowing that it would not spread to German citizens. They also faced polluted drinking water due to poor sanitation and living spaces. The people in the streets along with those in buildings without heat faced the frost from the fringed weather in Poland. Many people wore rags since they could not afford clothes and were acceptable to weather conditions.
A Polish courier said,
Everywhere there was hunger, misery, the atrocious stretch of decomposing bodies, the pitiful moans of dying children, the desperate cries and gasps of a people struggle for life…there was hardly…empty space.” Everyday so many people died inside the ghetto that the dead were put on the side of the streets to be picked up in the mornings on what was called funeral carts.