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I - And the food, how was it there?
PL - Well, the food was problem number 1, but I didn't agree with those who describe the soup and the bread of Auschwitz as disgusting. As far as I'm concerned I was so hungry that I never found the food disgusting, not even the first day. It was scarce. They gave us a minimal ration equivalent to about 1600-1700 calories a day, but theoretically, because there were thefts and we would always get less; That was the official, so to speak, provision. Now, as you know, a man who doesn't weigh much can live on 1600 calories not only without working, but laying down; But we had to work, and in the cold, and at hard labor. Thus this ration of 1600 calories was a slow death by starvation. Later I read some research done by the German which said that a man could last, living off his own reserves and that diet, from two to three months.
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