The Dutch famine of 1944–1945, also known as the Hunger Winter (from Dutch Hongerwinter), was a famine that took place in the German-occupied Netherlands, especially in the densely populated western provinces north of the great rivers, during the relatively harsh winter of 1944–1945, near the end of World War II.

2010年9月20日 · In the winter and spring of 1944 after a railway strike, the German occupation limited rations such that people, including pregnant women, in the western region of The Netherlands, including Amsterdam, received as little as 400–800 calories/d.

2024年11月20日 · Following a German blockade, food supplies to the Netherlands dwindled, and people began to starve. It was a rare instance of famine in a developed and wealthy country in recent history. Let’s talk about it. Why was there a Hunger Winter?

2025年1月11日 · During the Dutch famine of 1944-1945, also known as the Hunger Winter, a teenage Audrey Hepburn endured immense hardship in Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Living in Arnhem, she faced severe malnutrition, surviving on tulip bulbs and grass, which left her with lasting health issues.

2018年1月31日 · Babies born during the Dutch Hunger Winter became adults with higher rates of health problems. Now researchers may have found the genetic switches that made it happen.

The Dutch famine of 1944–1945, popularly known in the Netherlands as the ‘Hunger Winter’, is one of the major European World War II famines and has been central to the Dutch collective memory of the German occupation since the country’s liberation in May 1945.

The Dutch famine, also known as the Dutch Hunger Winter, occurred in The Netherlands at the end of World War II. The Nazis had cut off food supplies to the western part of The Netherlands in retaliation for the exiled Dutch government supporting the Allies.

The food shortage caused severe hunger. People ate everything they could get their hands on: tulip bulbs and sugar beets, but also dogs and cats. There was still some food in the countryside, so people walked or cycled dozens of kilometres to buy food from farmers.

During the last months of the Second World War the Western Netherlands was affected by an acute famine, known as the Hunger Winter. Food intake from all sources was reduced to extremely low levels. The effect on mortality at all ages was very large and immediate.

2024年12月9日 · It’s the 80th anniversary of the Dutch Hongerwinter during World War II, which led to widespread starvation and an inadvertent breakthrough in treating deadly celiac disease. Dutch children eating soup during the famine of 1944–1945. The 1944 – 1945 Hongerwinter (Hunger Winter) in Holland during World War II was brutal.