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Deportation Trains
Foreign Citizens
Prisoners
Jewish Refugees During the War
Poles
Polish Refugees
Prewar Refugees
List of refugees
Official documentation
Testimony
Letter
Personal documents
Telegram
List of Jews
Survey report
Postcard
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Record of persecuted persons
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Newspaper clippings
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Legal documentation
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Birth certificate
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German
Russian
English
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Hebrew
Dutch
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Italian
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Greek
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Passports
Forced Labor
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Children
Hunger
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Jewish education
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"She’erith Hapletah"
Partisans
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Jewish children
Assistance to Jews
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Death Marches
Rehabilitation of life after the war
DP camps
Typhus
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The Red Army