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Chapter 4: The Ghetto

Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust by Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Oct 10, 202300:33:40Education

They are given minutes to pack. A suitcase, a sheet-wrapped bundle, whatever they can carry. Thousands of the city's Jews are marched at gunpoint to the newly enclosed Jewish ghettos, where the previous inhabitants have...

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