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![Deportation of Jews from Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main, to the Theresienstadt ghetto. [LCID: 77905]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/413bd128-a130-4c41-90c5-b40d307c9d82.jpg.pagespeed.ce.ULvJx8jS7Y.jpg)
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