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Born: 1925 in Horochow, Poland
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Born: 1917 in Sokolow Podlaski, Poland
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Born: June 3, 1923 in Bedzin, Poland
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Born: November 29, 1923 in Jacovce, Czechoslovakia
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Born: February 27, 1922 in Warsaw, Poland
Born: March 1, 1922 in Bochum, Germany
Born: November 20, 1913 in Vilna, Poland
Born: September 28, 1923 in Trest, Czechoslovakia
Born: October 16, 1889 in Hirschberg, Germany
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