[Avodah] eating human flesh during the Shoah

[Danny Schoemann]

From: R' Eli Turkel <eliturkel at gmail.com>

> I remember a teshuva about eating human flesh during the shoah
> Does anyone have a exact reference to such teshuvot?

The last last Teshuva (#112 - page 218) in R' Ephraim Oshry's Sefer
"Responsa from the Holocaust" is titled: Cannibalism.

("Responsa from the Holocaust" is translated from "Sheilos Utshuvos Mima'makim")

He concludes "that it is permissible to eat the flesh of a human
corpse for survival."

However he says he never heard of such a thing happen, except by the
non-Jewish Russian soldiers.

He ends the teshuva and the book with:

"How glorious are the Jewish people! One cannot imagine, let alone
describe, the hunger that raged in the concentration camps and the
ghettoes among the Jews. Even so, the Jewish people did not descend
from their level of sanctity, they never ate human flesh."

A Gutten Shabbes and a Freilichen Purim

- Danny, in Jerusalem