Famine Disease

The Warsaw ghetto in the early 1940’s. Inside the walls there was a huge lack of food. According to the rationing orders Jews got a quarter of what Germans did. In reality Jews got a tenth of what is needed to stay alive. The ghetto that was mangled by famine soon grew into a giant laboratory – a continuous human experiment in the search for the boundaries of human capacity. The Jewish doctors and scientists not only treated those close to them but also made pioneering science solving the mechanisms of starvation. The heritage of the research is unbelievable evidence of how under so much physical submission and destruction the spirit of the people didn’t die but made them cherish science and art even when facing the hopeless