Yehuda Nir (1930)
Yehuda Nir was a Polish-born American Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist and author of The Lost Childhood. Nir posed as a Roman Catholic and learned Latin to escape Nazi persecution in Poland during…
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Jane Humphries (1948)
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Aranka Siegal (1930)
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Melanie Griffith (1957)
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Jan Peter Balkenende (1956)
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Gerrie Knetemann (1951)
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