Some of the most atrocious human atrocities ever committed were during the Holocaust and World War II. While learning the history the moments highlighted are the events leading up to and during the Holocaust, yet few focus on the struggle many survivors were forced to undertake after. Usually, a survivor had few if any family left and had no home to go back to. One of the saddest aspects that few know is the trouble with food many struggled with.
After being starved for so long with a bare minimum of nutrients, many were excited to eat real food again. The soldiers that liberated the concentration camps provided chocolate and sweets for the prisoners, yet their bodies had become so unaccustomed to processing food that their systems collapsed. Tens of thousands died from overeating and exhaustion, a fact made all the more terrible because they had just lived through one of the worst possible periods in history.