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Young German policemen assist in the roundup and deportation of Jews from the Żychlin ghetto in German-occupied Poland. Jews from Żychlin were transported to the Chełmno killing center, where they were murdered in gas vans. This brutal roundup took place on Jewish holiday of Purim. Poland, March 3, 1942.
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