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them. She also heard that Helga’s
brothers had joined the German
army.
Maria’s thoughts came back to
the present, and she looked at the
German soldier. The image of
Helga’s brothers came to her, and
she clenched her fists. She and the
other Jewish girls from her college
had been taken in the middle of the
night. They had ridden for a day in
a train’s cattle car and then loaded
into this truck. When they stopped
at a checkpoint, she heard the driver
tell a guard that the truck had
“Jewish workers.”
Maria had heard the Jews were
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