Beetroots from the ghetto
Ingredients:
– 2 beetroots,
– salt,
– saccharin,
– water?
Preparation:
Using a grate grind two beetroots. Put them into a pot, add some salt and water. At the end mix with a little bit of saccharin. Ready.
There was no bread anymore. Bread was too expensive (…) At the end there was no potatoes, but just some beetroots. Mom or aunt used to grind two beetroots on a grate, cooked it, salted a little. A little of saccharin was added and these was eaten or drunk – hard to say.
The Warsaw ghetto. Helena Antonowicz*
* Source: VISUAL HISTORY ARCHIVE (SHOAH FOUNDATION INSTITUTE)
Holocaust is the extermination that all have heard of. 6 million lives simply erased. From the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933, throughout the War with a variety of methods efforts were made to eliminate the whole nation. Systematic and even industrial murder on an incomprehensible scale, conducted mainly on the lands of occupied Poland, performed with a variety of weapons, often using hunger. This was a planned, bureaucratic and state-funded murder process based on pseudoscientific, eugenic ideas of the “great race”. Starvation deaths were planned and targeted at specific groups, but in reality they affected almost everyone: people imprisoned in camps, ghettos, the occupied populations but also the soldiers themselves.