Back in the 90s, I helped clean out the apartment of a Holocaust survivor. She'd been taken out of a death camp for a labor camp, and nearly starved. There was

Back in the 90s, I helped clean out the apartment of a Holocaust survivor. She'd been taken out of a death camp for a labor camp, and nearly starved. There was food stashed all over the apartment. Like you mention, canned food in odd places, hard candies hidden everywhere imaginable, boxes of crackers behind books on the shelves, etc. Also, small caches of coins or other valuables. It was both impressive and pathetic.