My father survived starvation as a child. He never forgot what it meant to be hungry

Jason Prokowiew's father was 10 in 1941, when the Nazis that invaded Belarus murdered his mother. How to get food -- and how to survive without it -- became a through line in his survival story. Now, with famine imminent in Gaza, Prokowiew is reminded that living without food is not something humans ought to know.

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