Hunger as politics

Hunger as politics

This is a simple display of objects and documents from the archive of the Jewish Museum of São Paulo – MUJ.

Through this selection of 9 unpublished prints from the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, in Germany, we show the terrible living conditions to which Jews and other prisoners were subjected during the Second World War. In the accounts of survivors, the imposition of extreme starvation is constant and evidenced by the documents shown.

Subjecting people to starvation is a cruel way of controlling and perpetuating suffering. Today, hunger and food insecurity are still a concrete fact and, in many countries, unfortunately, a strategy of political manipulation. Humanity does not lack the resources to feed the entire world population, only the ethical commitment to put a definitive end to this unacceptable reality.

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