Warsaw+Living+Conditions

The living conditions of the Warsaw ghetto were very poor. The ghetto started to become very crowded as more Jews were forced to move in. Because the Jews were allowed to have a certain amount of income, money started to run low. This led to starvation of poorer families. Not only were a mass amount of people dying of starvation, the horrible sanitary conditions caused a typhoid pandemic to sweep the city. In April 1941, the mortality rate in the ghetto was around 6,000 people a month. (warsaw-life.com) Families stripped their dead relatives so they could sell the clothes. (warsaw-life.com)

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