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How did Charlene Schiff and other children smuggle food into the ghetto of Horochow?
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Can you tell me which source or testimony you mean (a book, article or an oral-history transcript)? I don’t want to misreport a specific person’s story.
If you don’t have a citation, here are the historically documented methods Jewish children commonly used to smuggle food into ghettos like Horochow’s (any of these may be what Charlene Schiff described):
- slipping through holes or gaps in fences and barbed wire to reach fields, forests or Polish villages and bring back potatoes, bread or milk;
- crawling under or climbing over perimeter defenses at dawn or dusk when guards were less attentive;
- hiding food on their person (in pockets, inside clothing or under skirts) or concealing it in bundles and carts brought into the ghetto;
- trading small valuables or work for food with sympathetic non‑Jewish villagers or workers;
- leaving the ghetto under work permits, forced labor details or as “messengers” and bringing back provisions;
- using cellars, sewers or narrow passages to move goods in and out covertly.
These attempts were extremely risky; many smugglers were beaten, shot or otherwise punished if caught. If you can point me to the exact testimony or page for Charlene Schiff, I’ll extract the precise details from that account.
If you don’t have a citation, here are the historically documented methods Jewish children commonly used to smuggle food into ghettos like Horochow’s (any of these may be what Charlene Schiff described):
- slipping through holes or gaps in fences and barbed wire to reach fields, forests or Polish villages and bring back potatoes, bread or milk;
- crawling under or climbing over perimeter defenses at dawn or dusk when guards were less attentive;
- hiding food on their person (in pockets, inside clothing or under skirts) or concealing it in bundles and carts brought into the ghetto;
- trading small valuables or work for food with sympathetic non‑Jewish villagers or workers;
- leaving the ghetto under work permits, forced labor details or as “messengers” and bringing back provisions;
- using cellars, sewers or narrow passages to move goods in and out covertly.
These attempts were extremely risky; many smugglers were beaten, shot or otherwise punished if caught. If you can point me to the exact testimony or page for Charlene Schiff, I’ll extract the precise details from that account.
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