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Born: 1896 in Komarovo, Poland
Born: May 4, 1922 in Komarovo, Poland
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Born: October 27, 1926 in Lipsko, Poland
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Born: January 30, 1903 in Cologne, Germany
Born: February 26, 1922 in Innsbruck, Austria
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Born: September 16, 1886 in Vrbovsko, Yugoslavia
Born: May 30, 1922 in Prague, Czechoslovakia
Born: 1932 in Bitterfeld, Germany
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Born: June 29, 1894 in Tyrnau, Czechoslovakia
Born: November 3, 1888 in Ujpest, Hungary
Born: June 13, 1926 in Snekkersten, Denmark
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