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Rivka’s Diary

“I will stop talking now. Makoshova argues with me that this

kind of famine has yet to be seen. Maybe not for her, but for us,

for me. Oh, God, what we’ve already been through. When our

mother was sick, I cooked 0.7 oz of potatoes for 4 people, with

no side dish. Mother received the potatoes, and we only drank

the water. Everyone received a little piece, for the taste of it

only.”

This piece was written by Rivka Lifshitz, a Jewish girl of only

14, on February, 1944, when she was at the Lodz Ghetto in

Poland. In the midst of WWII, Rivka writes a diary.

“Sunday, I’m sitting in school just like everyone else, waiting

for the soup. Enough! Enough of talking about food. Am I

writing about food yet again? What has happened to me?

Whenever I think of food, I become ill.”

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