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Shelters

shelters

Hiding places where Jews endured overcrowding during the action.

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... People with coughs also posed dangers in the shel- ters. Many who wished to be admitted to a hideout denied that they coughed. Alternatively, a cougher would threaten to expose the hiding place if he were not allowed to stay there. In one such case, sixty Jews were turned over to the Nazis because a cougher carried out his threat. ...
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