What food were the people living in the Holocaust concentration camps given?
Nazi Concentration Camps – Food. Food was inadequate and many prisoners were in advanced states of starvation. The morning meal was a kind of ersatz coffee and a small ration of black bread. A watery turnip or cabbage soup would be the midday meal. The evening meal might be a repetition of the morning. Many camps did not provide adequate fresh water and the water was polluted. Ersatz is a German word literally meaning substitute or replacement. VAIVARA CONCENTRATION CAMP The prisoners at Vaivara worked from morning till night at different types of hard labor, such as constructing railways, digging anti-tank ditches, quarrying large stones and pounding them to gravel, felling trees in forest and swamp areas where they stood up to their knees in half frozen waters. The DAILY food ration consisted of 7 ounces of bread with ersatz (meaning: substitute or fake) jam, ersatz coffee, and vegetable soup. http://www.geo
