![...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom.](/assets/img/quote-photos/for-most-people-in-the-jewish-ghetto-of-warsaw-nature-lived-only-in-memory.jpg)
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