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We knew that it was the last days of the war, we knew because of
the bombings and we knew because of the way the Germans soldiers
were pushing us and pulling us already and emptying the camps and
whatever. They took us all and put us together, all of the people
from camps, and they had us march through towns and through
fields. They didn't know where to put us anymore and they didn't
know what to do with us and there was no food because the Germans
were losing the war. Oftentimes as they marched us through a
town, a window would open and a shutter would open and either a
potato or a loaf of bread would come flying out and the shutter
would close after. And we would all pounce on this potato or this
whatever this piece of food was that came at us. And of course
they would shoot at us, but we didn't care at that point because
we were hungry. The streets were literally covered with bodies as
we marched. We would pass bodies, body after body after body,
people that were dropping dead from hunger, from disease, from
dysentery, because they did not have the strength or because they
gave up.
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