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Feb 2023
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Anne Frank Was Only One of Thousands in ...

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Growing up in New York as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Nina Siegal had always wondered about the experience of her mother and maternal grandparents living in Europe during World War II. She had heard stories of the war as a child from her... 
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