JS 211gw Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Emanuel Ringelblum, Judenrat, Jewish Territorialist Organization
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Wondering where they could send the jews. There was a significant armed uprising in this ghetto - 1943. 10% of the ghetto population died each year. The ghettos did not represent a system to kill all of the jews. Its clear that it was not to preserve life. Official rations (1941: germans 2614 calories, poles 669 calories, jews 184 calories. If the nazis allotted jews 184 calories per day, how did majority of. Smuggling in the ghetto was the primary means for acquiring supplementary provisions. 80% of food in the ghetto came through smuggling. Smuggling was done by entrepreneurs, underworld types, and children. Male jews ages 12-60 liable for forced labor. Three types of labor: cheap day-labor that went in and out of the ghetto, forced labor camps with poor conditions and high death rates, work within the ghetto in workshops or private enterprise. Employers might be municipal institutions, the ghetto administration, army, ss concerns, and private german firms.
