…for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only

…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.