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Elly Gross recounts the experience of being uprooted from her peaceful home and sent to the Birkenau concentration camp by the Nazis. She describes the grueling labor, the struggle for survival, and her liberation at the end of the war. After her release, she began a new life in the United States.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Autobiography
Authors: Elly Gross
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