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9 - Aktion

The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah by Louis Brandsdorfer

Jun 4, 20085:19Religion & Spirituality

An aktion was what the inhabitants of the ghetto called the German military operations to capture and remove the Jews from the ghetto. My mother describes the aktion that catches the last of the children and sends them t...

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