Living Conditions in the Ghettos

The Nazis only gave Jews about 14 oz, of bread, 4.5 oz. of meat, 1.75 oz. of sugar, and 0.9 oz. of fat a day. keep in mind that a growing child should eat up to 2000 calories a day, but this only equaled out to 330 calories.

This, of coarse, lead to smuggling stealing, and begging on the streets. Most of the smugglers were children, because they were more likely to get away if they were to be noticed or caught, and if they looked Aryan they were also at a bigger advantage.

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These children also begged on the streets. They would beg for food and money, they would even sell there blankets so they could bye food, but when winter came they would freeze to death.

Sometimes many families had to share a single room. They would burn their furniture for heat and cooking, and would sleep on the floors. With the lack of heating, food, clean water, and the overcrowding, disease ran rampant. This lead to over a million people dying in these ghettos.