Twenty-eight Terezín survivor testimonies, before 1981.

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Twenty-eight Terezín survivor testimonies, before 1981.

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Twenty-eight interviews of Terezín survivors who were part of a rescue of 1,200 Jews sent to Switzerland by train in Feb. 1945 in exchange for payment of five million Swiss francs.

233 p.

Holocaust Center of Northern California, Holocaust Library and Research Center

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