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#OnThisDay, 14 May 1943, Vera Leigh returns to France to work as a courier for the British Special Operations Executive.
A fashion designer, Leigh had fled France in 1942 after running escape lines for Allied airmen.
After her return, Leigh carried documents and equipment such as guns and explosives around her network's area. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was executed at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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The Second World War "Antony Beevor's The Second World War is simply the ultimate Second World War history" Sale: $29.99 to $1.99 by Antony Beevor Rating: 4.6/5 (4,304 Reviews) #history #worldwar2 #military #nonfiction #booksky #books #reading #historybuff
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
Q. Should we discourage children from playing war games?
A. We might wish to discourage them, but it would be utterly useless at the present time, so we might as well give in gracefully and try to see that when war games are played they teach the lessons which we wish our children to learn — fair play, magnanimity in victory, courage in defeat and no hatred of peoples.Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1942-08), “If You Ask Me,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 59More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/83…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #children #conflict #courage #fairplay #games #hatred #lessons #magnanimity #model #moralityplay #nationalism #pedagogy #play #prejudice #teachingmoment #wargames #WorldWar2 #ww2 #parenting
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
Q. Should we discourage children from playing war games?
A. We might wish to discourage them, but it would be utterly useless at the present time, so we might as well give in gracefully and try to see that when war games are played they teach the lessons which we wish our children to learn — fair play, magnanimity in victory, courage in defeat and no hatred of peoples.Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1942-08), “If You Ask Me,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 59More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/83…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #children #conflict #courage #fairplay #games #hatred #lessons #magnanimity #model #moralityplay #nationalism #pedagogy #play #prejudice #teachingmoment #wargames #WorldWar2 #ww2 #parenting
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
Q. Should we discourage children from playing war games?
A. We might wish to discourage them, but it would be utterly useless at the present time, so we might as well give in gracefully and try to see that when war games are played they teach the lessons which we wish our children to learn — fair play, magnanimity in victory, courage in defeat and no hatred of peoples.Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1942-08), “If You Ask Me,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 59More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/83…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #children #conflict #courage #fairplay #games #hatred #lessons #magnanimity #model #moralityplay #nationalism #pedagogy #play #prejudice #teachingmoment #wargames #WorldWar2 #ww2 #parenting
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
Q. Should we discourage children from playing war games?
A. We might wish to discourage them, but it would be utterly useless at the present time, so we might as well give in gracefully and try to see that when war games are played they teach the lessons which we wish our children to learn — fair play, magnanimity in victory, courage in defeat and no hatred of peoples.Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1942-08), “If You Ask Me,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 59More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/83…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #children #conflict #courage #fairplay #games #hatred #lessons #magnanimity #model #moralityplay #nationalism #pedagogy #play #prejudice #teachingmoment #wargames #WorldWar2 #ww2 #parenting
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
Q. Should we discourage children from playing war games?
A. We might wish to discourage them, but it would be utterly useless at the present time, so we might as well give in gracefully and try to see that when war games are played they teach the lessons which we wish our children to learn — fair play, magnanimity in victory, courage in defeat and no hatred of peoples.Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1942-08), “If You Ask Me,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 59More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/83…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #children #conflict #courage #fairplay #games #hatred #lessons #magnanimity #model #moralityplay #nationalism #pedagogy #play #prejudice #teachingmoment #wargames #WorldWar2 #ww2 #parenting
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https://www.alojapan.com/1485216/shorts-this-building-survived-the-hiroshima-bomb-%f0%9f%98%b3/ #shorts This Building Survived the Hiroshima Bomb 😳 #AshGecks #AtomicBombDome #ExploreJapan #Hiroshima #HiroshimaAtomicBombDome #HiroshimaDestinations #HiroshimaDome #HiroshimaPeaceMemorial #HiroshimaTour #HiroshimaTravel #HiroshimaTrip #HiroshimaVacation #HistoricJapan #Japan #JapanShorts #JapanTravel #TravelShorts #ViralShorts #WorldWar2 #ww2 #広島 #shorts This Building Survived the Hiroshima Bomb 😳 #shorts Visiting Atomic Bomb Dome 🇯🇵 This p
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https://www.alojapan.com/1485216/shorts-this-building-survived-the-hiroshima-bomb-%f0%9f%98%b3/ #shorts This Building Survived the Hiroshima Bomb 😳 #AshGecks #AtomicBombDome #ExploreJapan #Hiroshima #HiroshimaAtomicBombDome #HiroshimaDestinations #HiroshimaDome #HiroshimaPeaceMemorial #HiroshimaTour #HiroshimaTravel #HiroshimaTrip #HiroshimaVacation #HistoricJapan #Japan #JapanShorts #JapanTravel #TravelShorts #ViralShorts #WorldWar2 #ww2 #広島 #shorts This Building Survived the Hiroshima Bomb 😳 #shorts Visiting Atomic Bomb Dome 🇯🇵 This p
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Forgotten war film about D-Day that’s ‘more realistic than Saving Private Ryan’ | Films | Entertainment
The 1975 classic is hailed as ‘more realistic’ than Saving Private Rya…
#NewsBeep #News #Entertainment #archivalfootage #D-Day #D-Daydepiction #D-Daylandings #filmreview #forgotten #GB #morerealistic #overlord #Overlordfilm #SavingPrivateRyan #soldier'sjourney #soldier'sperspective #StuartCooper #UK #UnitedKingdom #warfilm #Warmovies #worldwar2 #WWIIrealism
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Very early #OnThisDay, 6 May 1944, Marguerite 'Peggy' Knight parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance: couriers would move messages and equipment around an area.
Knight fought her way out of an attempted capture, and returned to the UK in September 1944.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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https://www.europesays.com/people/54623/ Ukrainian commander claims Russia ‘preparing to use tactical nuclear weapons’ #DmitryPeskov #Terrorism #Transneft #VladimirPutin #WorldWar2
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#OnThisDay, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.
She's never captured.
She died in 2023, in New Zealand.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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‘The Flight of the Vikings, Daring Escapes in Small Boats from Nazi-Occupied Norway 1940 – 45’ now in Paperback
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Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
Couriers like Wake would take messages and materials such as explosives, guns or grenades around the patch their network covered.
Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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Why a common World War II experience made Americans choose toilet paper over bidets
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Voices from Scapa : Gathering the Stories
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/04/26/voices-from-scapa-gathering-the-stories/
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Darkroom Assistant’s Scrapboook Contains Unseen Photos Taken by Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton https://petapixel.com/2026/04/08/darkroom-assistants-scrapboook-contains-unseen-photos-taken-by-lee-miller-and-cecil-beaton/ #oxforduniversity #secondworldwar #photoarchive #acquisition #cecilbeaton #photoalbum #leemiller #scrapbook #worldwar2 #darkroom #Analog #vogue #News
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World War Two was the archetypal good war. And ask any liberal, FDR was the archetypal good president. But don't ask Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie -- The Almanac Singers.[1] They released Songs for John Doe[2] in 1941 and it's full of anti-draft, anti-war, anti-FDR songs, inspired by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, the first peacetime conscription law ever enacted in the US.[3]
And are you afraid to fight, Billy boy, Billy boy?
Are you afraid to fight, charming Billy?
You can comе around to me when England's a democracy...[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Almanac_Singers
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_for_John_Doe
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Training_and_Service_Act_of_1940
#ProtestSongs #AlmanacSingers #BillyBoy #WorldWar2 #WW2 #Conscription #SelectiveService #WoodyGuthrie #PeteSeeger #FolkMusic
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World War Two was the archetypal good war. And ask any liberal, FDR was the archetypal good president. But don't ask Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie -- The Almanac Singers.[1] They released Songs for John Doe[2] in 1941 and it's full of anti-draft, anti-war, anti-FDR songs, inspired by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, the first peacetime conscription law ever enacted in the US.[3]
And are you afraid to fight, Billy boy, Billy boy?
Are you afraid to fight, charming Billy?
You can comе around to me when England's a democracy...[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Almanac_Singers
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_for_John_Doe
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Training_and_Service_Act_of_1940
#ProtestSongs #AlmanacSingers #BillyBoy #WorldWar2 #WW2 #Conscription #SelectiveService #WoodyGuthrie #PeteSeeger #FolkMusic
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World War Two was the archetypal good war. And ask any liberal, FDR was the archetypal good president. But don't ask Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie -- The Almanac Singers.[1] They released Songs for John Doe[2] in 1941 and it's full of anti-draft, anti-war, anti-FDR songs, inspired by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, the first peacetime conscription law ever enacted in the US.[3]
And are you afraid to fight, Billy boy, Billy boy?
Are you afraid to fight, charming Billy?
You can comе around to me when England's a democracy...[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Almanac_Singers
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_for_John_Doe
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Training_and_Service_Act_of_1940
#ProtestSongs #AlmanacSingers #BillyBoy #WorldWar2 #WW2 #Conscription #SelectiveService #WoodyGuthrie #PeteSeeger #FolkMusic
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World War Two was the archetypal good war. And ask any liberal, FDR was the archetypal good president. But don't ask Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie -- The Almanac Singers.[1] They released Songs for John Doe[2] in 1941 and it's full of anti-draft, anti-war, anti-FDR songs, inspired by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, the first peacetime conscription law ever enacted in the US.[3]
And are you afraid to fight, Billy boy, Billy boy?
Are you afraid to fight, charming Billy?
You can comе around to me when England's a democracy...[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Almanac_Singers
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_for_John_Doe
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Training_and_Service_Act_of_1940
#ProtestSongs #AlmanacSingers #BillyBoy #WorldWar2 #WW2 #Conscription #SelectiveService #WoodyGuthrie #PeteSeeger #FolkMusic
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Very early #OnThisDay, 6 Apr 1944, Lillian Rolfe and Violette Szabo separately arrive in occupied France to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SEO). Rolfe is a wireless operator, Szabo a courier.
Szabo returns to the UK at the end of April but goes back to France in June 1944 and is captured. Rolfe is captured in July 1944.
They are executed together, by shooting, in Ravensbrück concentration camp in Feb 1945.
#History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons #EuropeanHistory
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'Trump's speech represents failing Iran war - bravado and lies as he loses control'
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@hasani Please boost this toot ⬆️. It links to the @wikipedia page for the ‘#AmericaFirst *Committee*’ formed September 4th, 1940, *during* #WorldWar2 but *before* the #UnitedStates joined the #AlliedForces - including #Canada - who had declared war on #Nazi #Germany almost 2 years earlier.
Both sides of the #CivilWar among #Republicans claim the #AmericaFirst *slogan*; the #Nazis pair it with a shield, the #Talibangelicals feature an eagle. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-award-donald-trump-reaction_n_69c4cb1de4b0e447525c3260?origin=home-latest-news-unit
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#OnThisDay, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park in the UK. They operate the Bombe machines used for decoding German Enigma machine messages. Their work helps shorten World War 2.
At its peak, 75% of the workforce at Bletchley were women.
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #WorldWar2 #History #BletchleyPark #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park in the UK. They operate the Bombe machines used for decoding German Enigma machine messages. Their work helps shorten World War 2.
At its peak, 75% of the workforce at Bletchley were women.
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #WorldWar2 #History #BletchleyPark #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park in the UK. They operate the Bombe machines used for decoding German Enigma machine messages. Their work helps shorten World War 2.
At its peak, 75% of the workforce at Bletchley were women.
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #WorldWar2 #History #BletchleyPark #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park in the UK. They operate the Bombe machines used for decoding German Enigma machine messages. Their work helps shorten World War 2.
At its peak, 75% of the workforce at Bletchley were women.
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #WorldWar2 #History #BletchleyPark #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park in the UK. They operate the Bombe machines used for decoding German Enigma machine messages. Their work helps shorten World War 2.
At its peak, 75% of the workforce at Bletchley were women.
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #WorldWar2 #History #BletchleyPark #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 24 Mar 1944, Éliane Plewman is arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France after six months operating as a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance. A courier carried messages and equipment around their network.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #SOE
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#Canada ‘punched above its weight’ in #WorldWar2. But when #Nixon wanted #Canadians to fight in #Vietnam , Pierre #Trudeau was a ‘hard no’. In fact, he welcomed #DraftDodgers to Canada! https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.3628009
After #September11th , Canadians fought and died alongside #Americans in #Afghanistan. But when George W. Bush asked Jean Crétien to send troops to #Iraq , Crétien smelled the #WMD hoax and was a ‘hard no’.
#MarkCarney is a ‘hard no’ on the #FelonsCrusade too!
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Charming village where time stands still is home to world-famous food
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Very early #OnThisDay, 3 Mar 1944, Denise Bloch and Eileen Nearne arrived, separately, into occupied France as wireless operators for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supported the French resistance in sabotaging Nazi operations.
Both women were arrested by the summer. Denise was killed in Ravensbrück. Eileen escaped but never recovered her health.
#WomenInHistory #History #WorldWar2 #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #Histodons
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Once upon a time in Holland – September 1944 https://www.allforgardening.com/1616598/once-upon-a-time-in-holland-september-1944/ #Film #GardenPlans #history #incynema #Movie #MovieClips #WAR #WorldWar #WorldWar2 #WorldWarI #WorldWarIi
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The Fall of the Nazi Army – Trapped in Stalingrad
The turning point of the war. Experience the grueling reality of the Sixth Army as they were encircled and defeated in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad, marking the beginning of the end for the Third Reich.
#WWII #Stalingrad #MilitaryHistory #EasternFront #WorldWar2 #History #military
https://www.history-channel.org/the-fall-of-the-nazi-army-trapped-in-stalingrad/
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Fugaku & Unit 731: The “Wonder Weapons” That Threatened the US Mainland
Japan's desperate plans for a final blow. Discover the terrifying potential of the Fugaku long-range bomber and its connection to the horrific biological experiments of Unit 731, designed to bring war directly to American soil.
#History #WWII #Unit731 #MilitaryHistory #Weaponry #WorldWar2 #ushistory #military
https://www.history-channel.org/fugaku-unit-731-the-wonder-weapons-that-threatened-the-us-mainland/
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#WorldWar2 is the ultimate #geopolitical smoke screen, fed to the livestock #religiously, with #Hitler as the #moral decoy, so that Planet #Earth never grows the brain or the backbone to question the extinction level crimes of the White Allies.
Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop
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Castle Wolfenstein (Castle 199 longplay) for the TI-99/4A
https://youtu.be/G0SIV5NEh6g?si=ND85x8xDpo1pEe7j
#CastleWolfenstein #TI994A #Action #Shooter #Stealth #WorldWarII #WWII #WorldWar2 #WW2 #Homebrew #HomebrewGame #Longplay #StefanBauch #FrankEuler
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Vera star Brenda Blethyn shares retirement plans ahead of 80th birthday
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ITV GMB star shares emotional message on air after family members 'murdered'
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/itv-gmb-star-shares-emotional-36625881
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ITV GMB star shares emotional message on air after family members 'murdered'
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/itv-gmb-star-shares-emotional-36625881
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ITV GMB star shares emotional message on air after family members 'murdered'
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/itv-gmb-star-shares-emotional-36625881
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ITV GMB star shares emotional message on air after family members 'murdered'
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/itv-gmb-star-shares-emotional-36625881
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On this day in 1945, Joseph Stalin’s Red Army liberates the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps in which millions of Jews were killed.
Soviet troops found 370,000 men's suits, 837,000 articles of women's clothing, and 7 tonnes of human hair.
#TIH #USSR #RedArmy #WorldWar2 #Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #NeverForget #NeverAgain #Europe #History
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'My father died in Auschwitz and hiding me from Nazis put my mum in hospital'
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/my-father-died-auschwitz-hiding-36593557
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'I'm 106 and saw horror of Nazi Holocaust - Mum's decision saved my life'