But even the scariness of the hangings did not deter us. After all, it was all the same
how one risked one’s life. Death by starvation was certain if one did not bring food
home.
A mild punishment for minor offenses was to cut off a woman’s hair. They had to stand
at the gate when we returned in the evening. It looked terribly but did not deter.
Our food consisted of stinking heads of fish, rhubarb leaves, cabbage scraps, rotting
small fish, bits of bread. There were never potatoes, only those which we ”organized”.
Persons who scale the fence or
attempt to get in contact with
the inmates of the
ghetto through the fence will
be shot at without warning.
Riga ghetto for Jews 1941 until 1943
- The danger signs on the ghetto
fences read in German and Polish as
follows:
Living conditions and survival strategies
