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Holocaust Survivor's Powerful Story

February 26, 2021

Holocaust Survivor's Powerful Story

David Wisnia shares harrowing experience from the invasion of Poland and the Warsaw Ghetto, to Aushwitz and his escape attempt from Dachau.

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