Holocaust victim diet information?

Question

I'm doing a school project about the Holocaust, and I chose to research the average diet of a Holocaust victim in a concentration/death camp. Is there any website that you know of that can give me this information?

Answer 1

Just keep googleing. It really depends on the facility they were housed at. They mostly fed low calorie meals, like potatoes, a biscuit( a cracker ).

They experimented with disabled/mentally challenged children at a hospital, where they would purposely starve the children.

The hospital in question was Spiegelgrund Children's Hospital in Vienna during World War II. It was one of 30 so-called "euthanasia" centers in the Third Reich where 75,000 people across Europe, including 5,000 children deemed racially, mentally or physically unfit, were systematically murdered by doctors who daily betrayed their Hippocratic oath. The deaths of hundreds of Spiegelgrund children were accelerated through lack of food and neglect.

The drugs they received sometimes helped to bring on fatal pneumonia - which could then be registered as "death from natural causes".

Instead of being buried, many of the body parts were kept and stored for decades in formaldehyde in dusty glass jars in the cellar of the hospital in the private archive of one of the doctors accused of carrying out the killings, the Nazi doctor Heinrich Gross.

Look up Spiegelgrund Children's Hospital. That would be a good way to get some of the daily food info.

Answer 2

I read a biography about a Polish Jew who's whole family were sent to work camps. She usually had coffee in the morning, and a bowl of cold soup for dinner. Her brother which was in the men's work camp only recivied cup of coffee in the morning and a cup of soup for dinner. The diets were not nearly enough to surivie all the work and hardships they were to be put through everyday.
The book I read was called "I have lived a thousand years" i'd pick it up, it's a really good primary source.

Answer 3

I found a good site to start with. It has true accounts of what conditions were like including "meals" for previous prisoners of war in the during the Holocaust.

Answer 4

Soup of a mysterious nature and some bread.
Read "If this is a Man " by Primo Levi

Answer 5

i dunno about the web, but i saw documentaries (History Channel) that said they were fed a soup that gave them diarhea and made them thirsty...so then they'd eat more soup....vicious circle....