Some 18,000 people in the ghetto are believed to have died during a famine in 1942, and all together, about 43,800 people died in the ghetto from starvation and infectious disease.
כ-18,000 איש מתו מרעב בשנת 1942, ובסך הכל, כ- 43,500 אנשים מתו בגטו מרעב ומחלות.