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The night before he was liberated, Hersh and a few other survivors found an unguarded German warehouse, from which they took as much food as they wanted; they ate so much that their stomachs hurt due to the sudden intake of rich fatty foods which they had lacked for so long. For Hersh, it was his
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first taste of chocolate in five years. The Soviet soldiers let all of the surviving Jews do whatever they wanted with the
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