The Jews in the concentration camps went without food for day's sometimes weeks. When they were feed, they were given small rations of soup, old pieces of bread, and occasionally coffee. An average American would not dear touch the food they would be fed. "At about noon they brought us soup: a plate

rew worse each day the Nazi cruelty began defeating him, a man gave Elie advice that was sadly true. "I'll give you a sound piece of advice-don't give your ration of bread and soup to your old father. There's nothing you can do for him. And you're killing yourself. Instead, you ought to be having his ration." (Weisel, 105). Faced with the truth Elie had to accept the reality of the cruelty, but dismiss the idea of stealing his dying fathers rations. A terrible thing to be faced with.

The starvation that the Jewish people in the concentration camps had to endure caused them to become "wild beasts of prey" while being held captive. The food they were given, the cruelty of starvation, and the despair that they had to go through were all contributing factors to these once civilized peoples to react in such a way. It is a shame to think that such a terrible thing did happen. But this did happen are society must recognize that. It must never be forgotten what these people had to go through. You mustn't ever take advantage of what is merely to be thought of as just food. For it is not known when that food may be gone.

Starvation is defined in the dictionary as to die of suffer from lack of food. The Jews held in th

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