Potatoes in a Stocking
“Mother cooked the potatoes—she mashed them in stockings and threw them onto the street, into the ghetto. When they saw that we were sending food down, they put up a net—those factory owners.”*
Ingredients:
- A few potatoes
- Old stockings
- Water for boiling
- Salt
Preparation:
Boiling the Potatoes:
- Peel the potatoes and place them in a pot of water. Add salt. Boil over medium heat until they are soft.
Presentation:
- After boiling, drain the potatoes. Place them inside clean, old stockings. Tie the ends of the stockings.
Serving:
- Potatoes in stockings were thrown over the walls of the ghetto to reach those starving inside. This act saved lives but was also a gesture of great risk and courage.
The Holocaust is a genocide that everyone has heard of—6 million lives simply erased. From the Nazi rise to power in 1933 through the war, various methods were employed to exterminate an entire people. Systematic and almost industrial-scale killing on an unimaginable level, primarily carried out on Polish territories occupied by the Third Reich, using various forms of weaponry, often hunger. This was a planned, bureaucratized, and state-funded process of murder, rooted in pseudoscientific, eugenic ideas of a “superior race.” Starvation deaths were deliberate, targeting specific groups but affecting practically everyone—those imprisoned in camps, ghettos, occupied populations, and even soldiers themselves.
