"People who were just starting to beg stood by the ghetto wall or by buildings, on the sidelines, quietly asking for help. Over time, they demanded food more and more insistently, they more and more boldly showed off the demolition of their bodies, for example by showing their pre-war photographs, and they more and more boldly took up space on the sidewalks. The loudest beggars were the youngest children, who had not had time to make a self-image before the war, so they did not feel the dissonance between who they erstwhile were and who they had become in the ghetto, and they felt little embarrassed erstwhile calling for help."
