While food rations were often limited and nutritionally inadequate, most internees received enough food to survive.
However, there were some cases of starvation, particularly in camps that were overcrowded or poorly managed.
For example, in the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California, an outbreak of dysentery in 1942 led to the deaths of several internees due to malnutrition and starvation.
Additionally, in the Belsen concentration camp in Germany, thousands of prisoners starved to death in the final months of the war as the camp was abandoned by the Nazis.