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This multi-media resource list, the death camps and the German from Nazi-Occupied . compiled by Jennifer Ewing of children of perpetrators who have New York: Continuum, 1997. the San Diego Public Library in inherited the sins of their parents This journal describes the ordeal a partnership with the American through no fault of their own. middle-class Jewish woman, Library Association, provides a Cyprys, and her child, Eva, endured range of perspectives on the Blatman, Daniel. For Our in German-occupied Poland from issues raised by the upcoming Freedom and Yours: the Jewish the formation of the Warsaw Ghetto P.O.V. documentary “Hiding and Labour Bund in Poland, 1939- through the ghetto uprising in 1944. Seeking: Faith and Tolerance 1949. Portland, OR: Vallentine After the Holocaust” that Mitchell, 2003. Creates a picture Darsa, Jan. Facing History and premieres on August 30th, 2005 of the Bund, the largest Jewish left- Ourselves: the of Poland. at 10 p.m. on PBS (check local wing political party in Poland before Brookline, MA: Facing History listings at www.pbs.org/pov/). the war, and how it was thrown into and Ourselves National turmoil by the German attack, Foundation, Inc., 1998. This Is it possible to heal wounds and losing contact with many of its resource book considers the ways bitterness passed down through constituents and control over the Jews and their non-Jewish generations? An Orthodox Jewish institutions it had cultivated for neighbors in Poland and other parts father tries to alert his adult sons to decades. of Eastern Europe responded to the dangers of creating questions of identity, membership, impenetrable barriers between Bluglass, Kerry. Hidden from the and difference at various times in themselves and those outside their Holocaust: Stories of Resilient their shared history. faith. He takes them on an Children Who Survived and emotional journey to Poland to Thrived. Westport, CT: Praeger, Dobroszycki, Lucjan. Image track down the family who risked 2003. Bluglass presents interviews Before My Eyes: a Photographic their lives to hide their grandfather with 15 adults who avoided History of Jewish Life in Poland for more than two years during execution in their childhoods thanks Before the Holocaust. New York: World War II. Like many children of to being hidden by Christians during Schocken Books, 1994. This survivors, the sons feel that Poland the Holocaust. photographic essay examines the is a country that is incurably anti- various Jewish societies in pre -Nazi Semitic, but it is precisely here that Brink, T.L. ed. Holocaust Poland, the most Jewish European they meet people who personify the Survivors' Mental Health. New country at the time, and reveals highest levels of compassion. York: Haworth Press, 1994. that community’s creativity, vitality, "Hiding and Seeking" explores the Reviews mental health issues and complexity. Holocaust's effect on faith in God as relevant to aged Holocaust well as faith in our fellow human survivors and their families. Dwork, Deborah. Children with a beings. A co-presentation with the Readers discover how some Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Independent Television Service. survivors maintain their mental Europe. New Haven, CT: Yale (ITVS) health by sharing their experiences University Press, 1991. Using in frequent testimonials while letters, drawings, and recollections ______others employ the defense of survivors, Dwork demonstrates ADULT NONFICTION mechanisms of denial and how Jewish children, expelled from avoidance. school and forced to wear the Alteras, Lea Ausch. Three yellow star, endured amid evil and Generations of Jewish Women: Bukiet, Melvin Jules., ed. horror. Holocaust Survivors, Their Nothing Makes You Free: Daughters, and Writings by Descendants of Epstein, Helen. Children of the Granddaughters. Lanham, MD: Jewish Holocaust Survivors. Holocaust: Conversations with University Press of America, New York: W.W. Norton, 2002. Sons and Daughters of 2002. Examines the connections This collection of fiction and non- Survivors. New York: Putnam, between three generations of fiction prose, by the descendants of 1979. Epstein, a child of Holocaust Jewish women, beginning with the Holocaust survivors, moves the survivors, interviews many others generation of female holocaust reader toward an answer as to how to present a wide range of survivors. atrocity gets filtered through underlying family issues and to imagination. reveal the alarming development of Berger, Alan L. and Naomi post-traumatic stress syndrome in Berger, eds. Second Generation Cargas, Harry J., ed. When God children of Holocaust survivors. Voices: Reflections by Children and Man Failed: Non-Jewish of Holocaust Survivors and Views of the Holocaust. New Gastfriend, Edward. My Father's Perpetrators. Syracuse, NY: York: Macmillan, 1981. A Testament: Memoir of a Jewish Syracuse University Press, significant anthology of non- Teenager, 1938-1945. 2001. The 29 second-generation Jewish Holocaust literature, Philadelphia, PA: Temple essayists in this book include both including a valuable bibliography. University Press, 2000. This first- Jewish children of Holocaust person account, by the youngest of survivors who live in the shadow of Cyprys, Ruth Altbeker. A Jump eight children of a pious Jewish for Life: a Survivor's Journal family from Poland, draws a portrait

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of a teenage boy faced with the memoir chronicles the struggles of loved ones to save Jews during the horrifying realities of the Holocaust, a young Jewish teenager and her Holocaust. trying to stay alive without losing mother as they learn to pass as his humanity. Polish Christians to escape Nazi Polonsky, Antony., ed. “My persecution. Brother's Keeper?”: Recent Gilbert, Martin. The Righteous: Polish Debates on the the Unsung Heroes of the Lukas, Richard C., ed. Out of the Holocaust. New York: Holocaust. New York: Henry Inferno: Poles Remember the Routledge/Institute for Polish- Holt, 2003. This volume reveals Holocaust. Lexington: University Jewish Studies, 1990. In this the individuals who risked their own Press of Kentucky, 1989. A collection of essays, contributors safety to aid Jews in Nazi-occupied collection of oral histories by 60 grapple with the moral questions Europe. Recounted largely through Christian Polish men and women surrounding the treatment of one first-person accounts by the Jews who survived the Nazi occupation. set of the Nazis' victims by another. they rescued in a country-by- Their moving testimonies recount Many Poles vehemently argue their country examination. the sadism, mass murders, innocence, pointing to their utter deportations and imprisonment that helplessness before the Nazis, while Hoffman, Eva. After Such Poles suffered at the hands of the others resolutely refuse to make Knowledge: Memory, History, Nazis and demonstrate how excuses for standing by--or even and the Legacy of the Holocaust. thousands of Poles courageously aiding--the slaughter. New York: Public Affairs, 2004. rescued Jews, at great risk to their In seven short essays, Hoffman own lives. Rigg, Bryan Mark. Rescued from focuses on the consciousness and the Reich: How One of Hitler's experience of the children of Neusner, Jacob. Death and Birth Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Holocaust survivors. The book of Judaism: the Impact of Rebbe. New Haven, CT: Yale considers such diverse concepts as Christianity, Secularism, and the University Press, 2004. Details how the trauma of the Holocaust is Holocaust on Jewish Faith. New the story of how high-ranking Nazis, constructed and the role of York: Basic Books, 1987. in a complicated series of actions, emigration and national identity in Analyzes the history of seven new helped to rescue Rabbi Joseph shaping the second generation's branches of Judaism and the way Schneersohn, the esteemed head of narratives of their lives. they fit into contemporary America. the Hasidic Lubavitcher movement, Neusner also breaks new ground on his family, and his entourage from Hoffman, Eva. Shtetl: the Life the influence of the Holocaust on Warsaw, Poland in March 1940. and Death of a Small Town and American Jews. the World of Polish Jews. Ringelblum, Emmanuel. Polish- Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, Niezabitowska, Malgorzata. Jewish Relations During the 1997. This account of cultures in Remnants: the Last Jews of Second World War. Chicago, IL: conflict puts the shtetl, the rural Poland. New York: Friendly Northwestern University Press, Eastern European small town that Press, 1986. Offers a rare glimpse 1992. Represents Ringelbaum’s stood as "the site of the Jewish of Polish-Jewish daily life, family, attempt to answer the questions soul," in its Polish context, religious celebrations, and that have haunted Polish-Jewish describing both the life and the community events and their ability relations for the last fifty years: world of the Polish Jews - the to survive and to retain cherished what did the Poles do while millions largest and most distinctive Jewish fragments of their culture after the of Jews were being led to the stake? community in the pre -war Europe - Holocaust. What did the Polish underground and the culture and history of their do? What did the government-in- Christian Polish neighbors. Oliner, Pearl M. Saving the exile do? Forsaken: Religious Culture and Kessel, Barbara. Suddenly the Rescue of Jews in Nazi Rose, Daniel Asa. Hiding Places: Jewish: Jews Raised as Gentiles Europe. New Haven, CT: Yale a Father and His Sons Retrace Discover Their Jewish Roots. University Press, 2004. Drawing Their Family's Escape from the Hanover, NH: University Press on interviews with more than 500 Holocaust. New York: Simon & of New England, 2000. Based on Christians—Protestant and Catholic Schuster, 2000. A reckless, interviews with 166 individuals who rescuers and non-rescuers—living in religiously ambivalent kid with a were raised as non-Jews and later Nazi-occupied Europe, Oliner offers passion for hiding places, Rose, now learned that they were of Jewish a sociological perspective on the 38, struggles to bond with his sons descent, all bound together by a values and attitudes that by taking them to Europe to retrace basic need for determining their distinguished each group. the journey that one of his mother's identity. cousins took with his twin daughters Paldiel, Mordecai. Saving the in an effort to escape the Nazis. Lauer, Betty. Hiding in Plain Jews: Amazing Stories of Men Sight: the Incredible True Story and Women Who Defied the Rosner, Bernat. An Uncommon of a German-Jewish Teenager's "Final Solution." Rockville, MD: Friendship: From Opposite Sides Struggle to Survive in Nazi- Schreiber, 2000. Presents 47 of the Holocaust. Berkeley: Occupied Poland. Hanover, NH: accounts of gentiles who risked University of California Press, Smith and Kraus, 2004. This their lives and the lives of their 2001. Recounts the stories of two

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American friends who meet in 1983 Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, New Holocaust. New York: J. Wiley, and slowly reveal that as teenagers York and was moderated by veteran 1994. This biography tells the story during World War II, they struggled reporter Gabe Pressman for WNBC- of Jan Karski and how he single - on opposite sides of the Holocaust: TV, Wiesel and Cardinal O'Connor handedly tried to alert the United Rosner as his Jewish-Hungarian shared moments of their past that States and England to the Nazi family's only survivor at Auschwitz profoundly changed their lives. atrocities he had witnessed in the and Tubach as the son of a German Discuss subjects ranging from anti- Warsaw Ghetto and elsewhere. Army intelligence officer and a Semitism to the horrors of the member of the Jungvolk, a pre- Holocaust. ______Hitler youth organization. ADULT FICTION Weiss, David W. Reluctant

Šliwowska, Wiktoria., ed. The Return: a Survivor's Journey to Belliveau, Gregory Kenneth. Go Last Eyewitnesses: Children of an Austrian Town. Bloomington: Down to Silence: a Novel. the Holocaust Speak. Evanston, Indiana University Press, 1999. Sisters, OR: Multnomah IL: Northwestern University In this memoir, Weiss, an eminent Publishers, 2001. When Press, 1998. This colle ction of cancer researcher at Hebrew stories of child survivors of the University in Jerusalem, describes businessman Jacob Horowitz, a Belgian Holocaust survivor, is Holocaust not only reveals the evil his return in 1995 to the Austrian diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and brutal anti-Semitism of the town from which, as a boy, he fled decides to make peace with his times, but also the great risks taken Nazi persecution in 1938. estranged son, Isaac, and with his by courageous individuals in order past. The two embark on a journey to save Jewish children. Weissmark, Mona Sue. Justice to reveal the suffering the Horowitz Matters: Legacies of the family endured during World War II Spiegelman, Art. The Complete Holocaust and World War II. and the reasons for hiding his faith. Maus. New York: Pantheon New York: Oxford University

Books, 1997. This two -volume Press, 2004. From a meeting Benski, Stanislaw. Missing graphic novel tells the story of between the children of Holocaust Pieces: Stories. San Diego, CA: narrator, Artie, and his father survivors and the children of Nazis, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor. this book examines the psychology of hatred and ethnic resentments 1990. This collection of stories focuses on Holocaust survivors Steinlauf, Michael. Bondage to passed from generation to struggling to reclaim their lost the Dead: Poland and the generation. identities in devastated postwar Memory of the Holocaust. Warsaw. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Wiesenthal, Simon. The

University Press, 1997. This Sunflower: On the Possibilities Rosenbaum, Thane. Elijah study analyzes postwar Poland's and Limits of Forgiveness. New efforts, first to deny, then to begin York: Schocken, 1998. Visible. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999. This collection of to deal with the complex reality of Wiesenthal recalls his life in a nine interlinked stories examines Poland’s role in the Holocaust and concentration camp and his envy of what life could have been for traces the slow emergence of a the dead Germans who had Manhattan lawyer Adam Posner, a new, more sympathetic attitude sunflowers marking their graves, son of Holocaust survivors, and toward the Holocaust and the assuming his would be a mass one, legacy of Polish-Jewish history. unmarked and forgotten. When a investigates how fragmented familie s, weak identification with dying Nazi soldier asks Weisenthal faith, as well as the chasm between Waller, James. Becoming Evil: for forgiveness for his crimes generations, dulls recognition of the How Ordinary People Commit against the Jews, he tackles the full enormity of the Holocaust. Genocide and Mass Murder. possibilities and limits of

New York: Oxford University forgiveness. Sucher, Cheryl Pearl. The Press, 2002. Social psychologist Waller develops a four-layered Wilkomirski, Binjamin. Rescue of Memory: a Novel. New York: Scribner, 1997. theory on how everyday citizens Fragments: Memories of a The daughter of Holocaust became involved in some of the Wartime Childhood. New York: survivors, Rachael Wallfish is raised most horrific acts of mass killing, Schocken Books, 1996. This in comfortable postwar New York, from Kosovo and Rwanda to the memoir illustrates the horror that reluctantly struggling to keep alive Turks' massacre of Armenians and Wilkomirski went through in a Nazi the suffering her parents the Holocaust. concentration camp in Poland as a experienced in the Lodz ghetto, young child and the terrible loss of Auschwitz, and Ravensbruck. When Wiesel, Elie and John Cardinal family, heritage, and a normal her mother dies, she struggles with O'Connor. A Journey of Faith: a childhood. Written from fragments the tensions in her life, the Nazi Dialogue Between Elie Wiesel of his childhood memory, it conveys death camp stories that haunt her and John Cardinal O'Connor; the feeling of a child speaking with dreams, and her conflicted Jewish Based on and Expanded from no adult interpretations. the WNBC-TV Broadcast. New identity in an effort to define herself. York: D. Fine, 1990. In this Wood, E. Thomas. Karski: How

dialogue, which took place at St. One Man Tried to Stop the

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Wiesel, Elie. The Forgotten. Abuse of Holocaust Survivors. and former servants as well as the New York: Schocken Books, Brookfield, CT: Twenty-First Germans, and how she went from 1995. Holocaust survivor Elhanan Century Books, 2001. Grades 6- an affluent home to cramped Rosenbaum, lives in New York and 12. This book looks at the suffering quarters in a ghetto to a tiny, is a distinguished professor with a of survivors immediately following hidden room in the Gentile part of psychiatric practice, but he is the war, when many people town. tragically losing his memory. While returned "home" to face racism, he can still remember, he creates a displacement, even massacre, and Wukovits, John F. Oskar "backup" by recording and giving when countries, including the U.S., Schindler. San Diego, CA: his stories to his son, Malkiel, denied shelter to most refugees. Thomson Gale, 2003. Grades 6-9. successfully linking generations This biography offers a short together. Greenfeld, Howard. After the summary of the persecution of Jews Holocaust. New York: in wartime Europe, and how ______Greenwillow Books, 2001. Schindler evolved from a profit- NONFICTION FOR Grades 7 and up. Eight Jewish hungry businessman to a protector YOUNGER READERS survivors share their personal of Jewish people. experiences of what happened after Adler, David A. A Hero and the the defeat of Hitler and of being ______Holocaust: the Story of Janusz released from years of FICTION FOR Korczak and His Children. New imprisonment into an uncertain YOUNGER READERS York: Holiday House, 2002. future. Grades 3-5. This picture -book Feder, Paula Kurzband. The biography introduces the Polish- Meltzer, Milton. Rescue: The Feather-Bed Journey. Morton Jewish orphanage director, Janusz Story of How Gentiles Saved Grove, IL: A. Whitman, 1995. Korczak, who cared for hundreds of Jews in the Holocaust. New Grades 1-4. Rachel and Lewis play children in the Warsaw ghetto and York: Harper Collins, 1988. tug-of-war with grandma's old then went with them to his death in Grades 7 and up. This book reveals pillow one windy day and suddenly Treblinka. that not all people stood back in it comes apart. Everyone scrambles fear when Hitler organized the to try to retrieve the feathers that Adler, David A. We Remember murder of six million Jews between fly up in the air. When the search is the Holocaust. New York: H. 1933 and 1945. abandoned, grandma tells the Holt, 1989. Grades 4-7. An youngsters the history of the pillow- introductory history of the Nieuwsma, Milton. Kinderlager: how it was once a featherbed and Holocaust that relies on interviews An Oral History of Young that now it is all she has left from with survivors and the families of Holocaust Survivors. New York: her childhood in Poland. survivors. Holiday House, 1998. Grades 6 and up. The stories of three Hesse, Karen. The Cats in Drucker, Malka and Michael Holocaust survivors, Tova, Frieda, Krasinski Square. New York: Halperin. Jacob’s Rescue: A and Rachel, told in their own words. Scholastic Press, 2004. Grades 3- Holocaust Story. New York: Dell, Readers see their families' efforts to 5. Set in Warsaw in 1942, this 1994. Grades 5-9. This novel tells rebuild their lives and the rampant picture book brings to life the story the story of a courageous Polish anti-Semitism in postwar Poland. of a young girl and her sister, who family that hides two Jewish escape the Ghetto and plan to brothers during WW II, risking their Opdyke, Irene. In My Hands: smuggle food to those still inside. lives every day to protect children Memories of a Holocaust who were not even related to them. Rescuer. New York: Knopf Orlev, Uri. The Island on Bird Books for Young Readers, 1999. Street. Boston, MA: Houghton Gottfried, Ted. Children of the Grades 5 and up. Opdyke was a 17- Mifflin, 1984. During World War II Slaughter: Young People of the year-old Polish Catholic nursing a Jewish boy is left on his own for Holocaust. Brookfield, CT: student when invaded her months in a ruined house in the Twenty-First Century Books, country in 1939 and she, like so Warsaw Ghetto, where he must 2001. Grades 7-12. This book many Poles, was made to serve the learn all the tricks of survival. discusses the one-and-a-half million German army. Sickened by the young Jewish victims of the suffering inflicted on the local Jews, Orlev, Uri. The Man From the genocide, the German youth Opdyke began helping Jews in the Other Side. Boston, MA: exploited by Hitler's totalitarian ghetto by passing along Houghton Mifflin, 1991. Grades 9 regime, and the history of how the information, smuggling food, and and up. Living on the outskirts of non-Jewish population in some helping them escape. the Warsaw Ghetto during World Nazi-occupied countries aided their War II, a fourteen-year-old Polish occupiers in killing Jews and the Toll, Nelly S. Behind the Secret boy and his grandparents shelter a children of survivors. Window: a Memoir of a Hidden Jewish man in the days before the Childhood During World War Jewish uprising. Gottfried, Ted. Displaced Two. New York: Dial Books, Persons: the Liberation and 1993. Grades 5 and up. Toll describes persecution by neighbors

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Orlev, Uri. Run, Boy, Run: a other Polish Jews, Polish Christians www.logtv.com/films/shtetl/de Novel. Boston, MA: Houghton and even a German businessman. fault.html Mifflin, 2003. Grades 5-8. Tells the story of a nine-year-old Jewish boy “From Kristallnacht to Crystal “There Once Was a Town.” A who escapes the Warsaw Ghetto Day: A Synagogue in Wroclaw film by Jeff Bieber. 1999. (90 and must survive throughout the Glows Again.” A film by Ellen min.) Documentary based on the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish Friedland and Curt Fissel. 2001. book of the same name by Yaffa countryside. (28 min.) Emphasizes the re - Eliach. About the town of Eishyshok. emergence of Jewish life in today's Zwi Michael is on a quest to find the ______post-communist Wroclaw, making young Christian farm girl who saved VIDEOS/DOCUMENTARIES the White Stork synagogue not only his life. Reuvan Paikowsky is an historical monument but also a searching for his father's grave. Abe “Andre’s Lives.” A film by Brad center and springboard for the Asner is looking for the Torah he Lichtenstein. Lumiere continuity of the community. hid. Yaffa Eliach is searching for her Productions. 1998. (64 min.) mother's murderers who shot her This documentary breaks new “Hidden in Silence.” A film by after the war had ended. ground by following Holocaust Hans Proppe. 2000. (93 min.) survivor Andre Steiner as he In Nazi-occupied Poland, the Jewish “To Know Where They Are.” A reluctantly returns to Europe with adoptive family of young Fusia is film by Terri Randall. 1989. (28 his sons to confront his traumatic taken into captivity. Fusia boldly min.) Randall and her father travel memories for the first time. helps some of her family escape to Poland in search of family roots. www.jewishculture.org/film/fil and must protect them by keeping There they discover that Christian m_andre.html them hidden in her tiny attic. neighbors hid their relatives during World War II. “Angry Harvest / Bittere ernte.” “House of the World.” A film by www.terrirandallproductions.co A film by Agnieszka Holland. Esther Podemski. 1998. (54 m/family.html Euro-American Home Video. min.) An exploration of the German with English subtitles. relationship between objective “World War II: The War in 1987. (105 min.) During the history and personal memory, this Europe.” A&E Home Video. German occupation of Poland and film examines the Holocaust 2000. (195 min.) Chronicles the the raid on the ghetto, a farmer through the eyes of survivors and events of World War II through allows a young Jewish woman on their descendants. expert commentary and graphic the run to stay at his house. They combat footage from the famed begin to fall in love; but with “Kaddish.” A film by Steve battles. differing personalities, education, Brand. 1984. (92 min.) Presents attitudes to life, and quite a actual events as interpreted “Zegota: A Time to Remember.” difference in age, the relationship through the eyes of a Jewish A film by Sy Rotter and Andrzej begins to fall apart again. concentration camp inmate who J. Sikora. 1992. (52 min.) www.german- was among the very few to survive Filmed in Poland, Israel, and cinema.de/archive/film_view.p the ordeal. The survivor's memories London, this film documents the hp?film_id=884 are further elaborated on by his clandestine efforts of diverse Polish son. groups- Catholics, socialists, “At the Crossroads: Jews in independents and others- to save Eastern Europe Today.” “Secret Lives: Hidden Children Jewish lives despite great personal A film by Yale Strom and Oren and Their Rescuers During risks. Rudavsky. English subtitles WWII.” A film by Aviva Slesia www.facets.org/asticat provided when Yiddish is and Ann Rubenstein Tisch. spoken. 1989. (60 min.) 2002. (72 min.) This documentary ______Strom travels through Eastern examines the efforts of non-Jewish WEB SITES Europe and discusses Jewish history adults who risked their lives during and a Jewish future with Jewish World War II trying to save Jewish Anti-Semitism academics, musicians, teenagers, children, using archival footage and http://ddickerson.igc.org.antise and students. interviews with survivors and the mitism.org families who hid them. Offers a variety of links for learning “Diamonds in the Snow.” A film more about anti-Semitism. by Mira Binford. National Center “Shtetl.” A film by Marian for Jewish Film at Brandeis. Marzynski. 1996. (173 min.) American Jewish Historical 1994. (58 min.) This documentary The filmmaker accompanies Nathan Society tells the story of three of the few Kaplan, a 70 year-old Jewish man www.ajhs.org/ Jewish children from the Polish city from Chicago to Bransk, a small The mission of the American Jewish of Bendzin who survived the Polish shtetl in Eastern Poland. Historical Society is to foster Holocaust. The film also portrays Here, their confrontation with the awareness and appreciation of the the individuals whose courage past begins. “Shtetl” takes a look at American Jewish heritage and to helped the three girls survive - Jewish-Polish relationships in both serve as a national scholarly the past and the present.

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