The first victim of our family was my youngest cousin.
He was only six months old, and I thought roughly,
about three or four months after the war, he died.
He was the first victim-- Mosha Rosenbloom.
Then the next victim was my grandfather. He was 73 years old.
He died in 1940. Then my uncle had something to do.
He twisted his ankle and couldn't walk, and he died.
Berl Lewinski. My grandfather's name was Jakob Lewinski.
Some families fighting-- taking bread from each other.
Uh, that was so sad.
When we-- When I used to bring home the ration,
my mother cut the bread in four pieces.
It was a loaf of bread, and we had a scale at home where we used to weigh the bread...
so nobody would have more or less bread.
We all shared the same. [ Sniffs ]
Same thing was with sugar. We have a little bit of sugar.
We used to weigh it,
and I used to bring the ration of marmalade or whatever else.
So everybody has exactly the same portion.
Uh, but mostly,
bread was the main staple.
It was dark bread.
It was bread probably baked with wild chestnuts or something like that.
It wasn't just flour-- rye flour.
Uh, that's all we could think of is bread.
And, uh, so there was a lot of rivalry going on with families.
They were hurting each other because of that.