Event · Deportation
Expulsion from home
The narrator and family were expelled from their home on Passover eve in 1942.
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... כך עבר החורף. בערב פסח 1942 גרשו אותנו מביתנו. אז גם החלו לדבר כי בקרוב יקימו
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