By David J. Glenn

He remembers the bread.

The rough mixture of flour and sawdust, one slice of it, was all that separated Bernard Gotfryd from starvation for each 24-hour period from the fall of 1943 to the spring of 1945 when he endured no fewer than six concentration camps in Poland.

The horror began for him when he was 18 and brought to the Maidanek death camp, and became inmate No. 88415.

Gotfryd, now of Forest Hills, is the author of