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    David Mazow­er
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    Who Will Res­cue Us?: The Sto­ry of the Jew­ish Chil­dren Who Fled to France and Amer­i­ca Dur­ing the Holocaust
    Lau­ra Hob­son Faure
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    Mark Mazow­er
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    Bar­ry Strauss
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    Samuel M. Katz
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    Chris­tine Kuehn
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    Julia Ioffe
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    Jor­dan Chad
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