LEADER 03245cam a2200409Ia 4500001 112763 005 20240621201149.0 008 060125s2004 xxu rb 000 0 eng d 028 52 3146722 |xUMI 035 (OCoLC)ocm61462883 035 112763 049 LHMA 040 MBB |beng |erda |cMBB |dLHM 090 DS135.P62 |bL64439 2004 100 1 Sinnreich, Helene Julia. 245 14 The supply and distribution of food to the Łódź ghetto : |ba case study in Nazi Jewish policy, 1939-1945 / |cHelene Julia Sinnreich. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2004. 300 245 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University, 2004. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-245) 520 This dissertation explores the German use of starvation as genocidal policy through a case study of the Łódź Ghetto. A detailed analysis of food supply and distribution in the Łódź Ghetto reveals that the Nazis, who ultimately controlled the amount of food that entered the ghetto, did not provide adequate sustenance to the Jews of the ghetto. Through the reduction of access to food, the Nazis perpetrated a slow genocide against the Jews of Europe. The Nazis were aware of the murderous effects of their food policies, and allowed those policies to continue resulting in the mass execution of the Jewish people in the ghettos. The basis for denial of sustenance adequate for survival was the low position of the Jews within the Nazi racial hierarchy. The mass starvation of the Jews of the ghetto, who were deemed by the Nazis to be "useless eaters," led to various coping methods, including a complex system of distributing what little food was allocated for the Jews in the ghetto. The various licit and illicit food entitlement schemas, however, that were manipulated by the German authorities ultimately failed to save the Jews from mass death from starvation. This dissertation examines Nazi and Jewish food entitlement, and the physical and mental effects of hunger and Nazi starvation policy on ghetto inhabitants. It concludes that although there might not have been an explicit order for mass extermination in the initial period of the ghetto, the result of Nazi food policy was a man-made famine leading to mass death, and thus it was de facto genocidal policy. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI, |d2006. |e23 cm. |7s2005 miun r 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zPoland |zŁódź. 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zŁódź. 650 0 Jews |xPersecutions |zPoland |zŁódź. 651 0 Łódź (Poland) |xHistory. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=795930281&sid=37&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib112763/3146722.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 852 0 |bstacks |hDS135.P62 |iL64439 2004 852 |bwww 852 0 |bebook