Salvatore and Lili Katan - August 18, 1981
Food in Camp
Do you remember how much you weighed at the end of the Holocaust? Did you, did you know how much?
SK: Yeah, I was a hundred, a hundred and forty-eight pounds, hundred and fifty pounds, something like that.
LK: Cannot be.
At the liberation--when you were liberated?
LK: Cannot be, what are you talking? You are talking about pounds? Hundreds.
SK: Oh, hundred and thirty, hundred and thirty-two pounds something like that.
LK: You didn't eat ???
SK: Uh, I used to eat ??? everything what they used to find.
LK: Where did you find it?
SK: Where did I find it? In the garbage, in the garbages.
What kind--what was the diet like? I mean, you must remember.
LK: Food? What was the food?
What was the food like?
LK: Simple to remember. Every night uh, little plate of beet--you know what is beet? Beets ??? this was the food, once a little slice.
Once a week.
LK: Very easy to remember.
Is that the same...
LK: My--I don't know, he was in a different, so I cannot tell you.
Was it the same? The food--the same thing?
SK: The thing was bread.
LK: You had tea?
SK: ??? and that was the tea, because they don't give you coffee over there.
LK: I know.
SK: And the bread was black piece of sliced bread.
Once a day?
SK: Once a day and sometimes not, maybe one potato, two potatoes maybe, it depends.
Was this just for the workers like you or for everybody?
SK: Like everybody, this uh, workers.
LK: Did you get everyday a sliced bread?
SK: Sliced bread...
LK: I'm not joking.
SK: They used to give us sliced bread and sometimes we used to eat a half and the half we used to hide--somebody else used to steal.
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