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…4-1 4Q-4t, ohen Contributing Writer - "Oh, my God! That's where I was. was there! It was inhumane." Don Cassa of Southfield was motioning toward the multiple movie screens in the darkened passage at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills that were displaying gruesome footage of dead bodies and the emaciated survivors liberated by the Allies at the end of World War II. "They were only skin and bones; I don't know how they made ...…
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