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After the war, thousands of Jewish children ended up in orphanages all over Europe as a result of the Holocaust. [LCID: 71585]
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Jewish children in an orphanage after the war

After the war, thousands of Jewish children ended up in orphanages all over Europe as a result of the Holocaust. The toddlers in this children's home in Etterbeek, Belgium, survived in hiding, but their parents had been deported to Auschwitz.

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