Oral history interview with Felicia Neufeld
The interview describes Ms. Neufeld's childhood in Berlin, Germany, her father's escape to Paris, France where she joined him and they lived until 1942, her father's arrest, and her move to a series of French orphanges. Ms. Neufeld describes an incident in which she was taken by the director of an orphange to see her mother, who had been transported to a prison in Paris from Berlin, where she had been hidden. Ms. Neufeld discusses the disappearance of the director of the orphange, escaping to northern France with other children from the orphange, and remembers air fights and struggling to survive in the countryside. Ms. Neuberg describes her life after the war, being sent for by relatives in the United States, and learning that both her parents perished in Auschwitz.
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- Interviewee
- Felicia Neufeld
- Date
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interview:
1983 April 11
- Language
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English
- Extent
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1 sound cassette (60 min.).
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Record last modified: 2023-11-16 08:14:04
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Also in American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors oral history collection
Contains oral history interviews with 157 Holocaust survivors recorded during the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Washington, D.C., in Apr. 1983. The interviews contain information about persecution, life in the ghettos and concentration camps, and concentration camp liberation during World War II.
Date: 1983 April 11-2083 April 13
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Oral history interview with Suzanne Agasee
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Suzanne Agasee, born in Paris, France on January 12, 1939, describes police coming to her home when she was two and taking her parents, leaving her grandmother, two brothers, and herself behind; a Jewish woman from an underground organization coming the next day to hide them; her grandmother being caught, deported, and dying in a gas chamber; being sent with her brothers to live with Catholic families; being taken to a Jewish orphanage after the war and living there for three years; searching for living relatives; she and her brothers becoming wards of the Jewish Congress and being sent to Canada to live with an uncle; being an atheist for years; marring a Jewish man; and deciding with her husband that having a strong Jewish identity was important in raising their two daughters.
Oral history interview with Janet Applefield
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Janet Applefield, born Gustava Singer in June 1935 in Kraków, Poland, discusses her family; being sent with her mother to Wadowice, Poland when the war began; her father joining them and moving to Vynnyky, Ukraine, where they lived for several months; her family returning to the Nowy Targ ghetto; leaving the ghetto with her parents and going to Niepolomice, Poland; how her parents decided to give her away to a half Polish, half German woman; her parents deportation the next day; staying with a cousin under the name Christina Antoskevitch; her cousin’s arrest by Nazis during a raid; not know what had happened to her cousin; a soldier refusing to help her; how a Polish woman took care of her for several weeks and then sent her to her family’s farm; staying on the farm; returning to another cousin after the war; being treated in a home in Zakopane, Poland for jaundice; reuniting with her father; immigrating with her father to the United States on March 25, 1947; and marrying and having three children.
Oral history interview with Idel Barth
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Oral history interview with William Basem
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Oral history interview with Adam Beer
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Oral history interview with Jack Begleiter
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Oral history interview with Irene Berger
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Oral history interview with Mira Berger
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Oral history interview with Dan Berkovits
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Oral history interview with Philip Bialowitz
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Oral history interview with Paul Blank
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Oral history interview with David Blitzer
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Oral history interview with Morton Blumenstein
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Oral history interview with Frieda Braksmajer
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Oral history interview with Alice Braun
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Oral history interview with Menucha Cale
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Oral history interview with Werner Cohen
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Oral history interview with Janet Davidson
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Oral history interview with Jolan Deitch
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Oral history interview with Lillian Eckstein
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Oral history interview with Mariene Einhorn
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Oral history interview with Samuel Einhorn
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Oral history interview with Max Eisen
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Oral history interview with Ida Ender
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Oral history interview with Joseph Fabian
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Oral history interview with Susan Farkas
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Oral history interview with Leo Fettman
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Oral history interview with Josef Feuereisen
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Oral history interview with Rena Finder
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Oral history interview with Frances Finkelstein
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Oral history interview with Michael Finkelstein
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Oral history interview with Curt Fondell
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Oral history interview with Helen Zimm
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Oral history interview with Luba Frederick
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Oral history interview with Sylvia Freilich
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Oral history interview with Izrail Frenkel
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Oral history interview with Szyja Frenkel
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Oral history interview with Ruth Friedman
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Oral history interview with Joseph Fruhman
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Oral history interview with Georgia Gabor
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Oral history interview with Moshe Gimlan
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Oral history interview with Anita Graber
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Oral history interview with Ann Grauman
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Oral history interview with Eva Greenspan
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Oral history interview with Mark Grunseid
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Oral history interview with Fay Guttman
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Oral history interview with Gucia Haut
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Oral history interview with Joseph Heller
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Oral history interview with Marcus Heller
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Oral history interview with Ellen Hersh
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Oral history interview with Celia Hershkowitz
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Oral history interview with Fany Hoffman
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Oral history interview with Molly Ingster
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Oral history interview with Sam Itzcowitz
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Oral history interview with Sol Zimm
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Oral history interview with Rose Jacoby
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Oral history interview with David Kahan
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Oral history interview with Henry Kanner
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Oral history interview with Moshe Kantorowitz
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Oral history interview with Henia Karp
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Oral history interview with Katalin Karpati
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Oral history interview with Susan Karplen
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Oral history interview with Arnold Kerr
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Oral history interview with Irving Kider
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Oral history interview with Cecilie Klein
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Oral history interview with Michael Klein
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Oral history interview with Hilda Kober
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Oral history interview with Emmy Kolodny
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Oral history interview with Joseph Korzenik
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Oral history interview with Adrienne Krausz
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Oral history interview with Josef Kreitenberg
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Oral history interview with Mary Kress
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Oral history interview with Sonia Krul
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Oral history interview with Lewis Lax
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Oral history interview with Elizabeth Lefkovits
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Oral history interview with Rachel Lefkovits
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Oral history interview with Rosie Leibman
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Oral history interview with Ida Lender
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Oral history interview with Charles Lipshitz
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Oral history interview with Ilse Loeb
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Oral history interview with Esther Lubochinski
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Oral history interview with Rose Luftig
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Oral history interview with George Lynn
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Oral history interview with Sylvia Malcmacher
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Oral history interview with Judith Mandel
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Oral history interview with John Marek
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Oral history interview with Tobie Markowitz
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Oral history interview with Henry Marton
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Oral history interview with Sara Marton
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Oral history interview with Paulette Meltzer
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Oral history interview with Sonia Meyers
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Oral history interview with Bernard Milch
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Oral history interview with Lusia Milch
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Oral history interview with Sonja Milner
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Oral history interview with Seymour Moncarz
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Oral history interview with Edie Newman
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Oral history interview with Leslie Niederman
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Oral history interview with Susan Niederman
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Oral history interview with Judith Novak
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Oral history interview with Anna Olivek
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Oral history interview with Mayer Pasternak
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Oral history interview with Sonia Pasternak
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Oral history interview with Jill Pauly
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Oral history interview with Lee Potasinski
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Oral history interview with Lily Redner
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Oral history interview with Edith Riemer
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Oral history interview with Dora Riss
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Oral history interview with Noah Roitman
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Oral history interview with Sol Rolnitzky
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Oral history interview with Barbara Rona
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Oral history interview with Michael Ronay
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Oral history interview with Celia Rosenfeld
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Oral history interview with Helen Rothstein
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Oral history interview with Aliza Rubin
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Oral history interview with Meyer Rubinstein
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Oral history interview with Hadassa Rublevich
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Oral history interview with Charlotte Rudner
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Oral history interview with Frieda Salomon
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Oral history interview with Gloria Salomon
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Oral history interview with Theodore Schwarcz
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Oral history interview with Hilda Schwartz
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Oral history interview with Barbara Seligman
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Oral history interview with Irene Shapiro
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Oral history interview with Meyer Shnurman
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Oral history interview with Ruth Gabriele Silten
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Oral history interview with Claudia Sissons
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Oral history interview with Isadore Small
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Oral history interview with Klara Snyder
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Oral history interview with David Sochaczewski
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Oral history interview with Ruth Sold
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Oral history interview with Goldie Speiser
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Oral history interview with Meier Stessel
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Oral history interview with Felice Stokes
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Oral history interview with Norman Swoy
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Oral history interview with Simon Taitz
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Simon Taitz, born in Königsberg, Germany, describes having a successful watchmaking business in the suburbs of Kaunas, Lithuania; hiding with a Gentile family after the German invasion; being in a motorcycle club before the war began and how it was taken by the partisans; being forced to do labor; being mistreated by the Germans; being sent to the ghetto; working in the nearby airport; being sent one day to another work place and writing a song (he sings it during the interview); witnessing the reactions of the parents during and after the roundup of Jewish children; the separation of the men and women in a camp and writing a song about a woman who saw the men dancing and was punished (he sings it and the interviewee reads the translation); his song about the daily life in the camp (he sings it and the interviewee reads the translation); more details about life in the ghetto; writing a song about the choices people made during the war; the journey on cattle cars to Dachau; being sent originally to Stutthof; being transferred to Dachau, where he was separated from his mother and never saw her again; details on his childhood (losing his father when he was very young and having two siblings); helping to save other Jews in the camp by giving them jobs in his watchmaking repair shop in Kaufering; and more details on daily life in the camps.
Oral history interview with Halina Zimm
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Oral history interview with Solomon Teichman
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Oral history interview with David Tenenbaum
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Oral history interview with Matthew Tovian
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Oral history interview with Max Trompeter
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Oral history interview with Fela Unikel
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Oral history interview with David Wakshlag
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Oral history interview with Dobka Waldhorn
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Oral history interview with Sidney Wapner
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Oral history interview with Martin Water
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Oral history interview with Celine Weber
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Oral history interview with Eva Weinberger
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Oral history interview with Alice Weinstock
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Oral history interview with Sam Weinstock
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Oral history interview with Rose Weisfeld
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Oral history interview with Sam Weisfeld
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Oral history interview with Sol Wieder
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Oral history interview with Samuel Wisznia
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