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Manya Auster Feldman - August 11, 1998

So no one, no one was. . .

No. Everybody received the same ration from the Germans, theration that was 200 grams of bread, which was a piece, it was like a pieceof brick. And that was the rations. There were—that's where hunger starteduh, coming. And a lot of people died of hunger. In our case, we had—wehad some um, merchandise that we—there was black marketing going on evenin the ghetto. You walked out to the gate and gentile people came and theyexchanged vegetables or some products for salt, for instance. Salt was a veryexpensive commodity. You couldn't get any salt. And they needed it.

Hm. Did this put your father in a, in a. . .

In a horrible position of not being able to provide for his childrena. . . and and uh, uh, and resort to not having enough food. You know whatwe had in the ghetto? Just bread and potatoes. That was all. We didn't haveany fats, any milk products, nothing. But we were, we were happy to have grits.We made even, you know, we made like what do you call kashas. You know, kasha.

Kashgrits.

Yeah. And. . .

Like grits. . .

Like—yeah. And and bread and potatoes. You did—youimprovised. You did from potatoes, you made a, a roast. I mean, that was thelife. And and we had to go, we had to go work. It was extremely hard work.