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In the Camp Kitchen: prisoners lining up for soup -- drawing by Ivan Sykahnov, Temirtau, 1935-1937
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. . . Prisoners sought out jobs which gave them access to food -- cooking, dishwashing, work in storage warehouses -- in order to be able to steal. Evgeniya Ginzburg was once ‘saved’ by a job washing dishes in the men’s dining hall. Not only was she able to eat ‘real meat broth and excellent dumplings fried in sunflower-seed oil,’ but she also found that other prisoners stood in awe of her. Speaking to her, one man’s voice trembled, “from a mixture of acute envy and humble adoration of anyone who coupled such an exalted position in life -- ‘where the food is!” ~ Page 212
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