Two malnourished children sit in the dirt eating from shallow plates. The one on the left is younger, almost toddler age, with short curly hair and medium skin tone wearing a large dark dress. The child on the right is older, with medium skin tone,  a head covering, and baggy clothes.
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Hunger in the ghetto

Children eating in a Warsaw ghetto street. Warsaw, Poland, between 1940 and 1943.


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