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…Metro AUSCHWITZ REMEMBERED Robyn Gorell Special to the Jewish News E Years After Liberation E >7' - An elderly Jewish women waits for her fate near the transport train to Auschwitz. HMC to display SS soldier's photos revealing Nazi selection process at Auschwitz. ighteen-year old Lili Jacob (now Lili Jacob- Zelmanovic Meier) and her family were among 3,500 deportees in a 1944 trans- port sent from Hungary to Auschwitz in Poland. Afte...…
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