His grandfather, a airy, found himself in this situation:
“...the camp personnel — soldiers and workers alike — were forced to sustain themselves via cannibalism.”
He survived because of this:
“ Yerucham took it upon himself to procure meager scraps and rations for Zaidy until normal fare was found. He did so for the entire 3.5 years they were at the camp. Mr. Bloch not only saved my grandfather’s physical life...”
It’s a nice story but is it cruel to point out that someone else was deprived of the food his grandfather received and as a result either resorted to cannibalism or starved?
“someone else was deprived of the food his grandfather received”
Would the prisoners have a cook? They had no food.
More likely he was cooking for the guards.
I no longer find it hard to believe that your comment is the takeaway from the article. The scraps of food he received allowed him to avoid the camp wide practice of cannibalism. To me scraps of food indicate he was existing barely above starvation.