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Review: Life in the Warsaw Ghetto rediscovered and recreated in 'Who Will Write Our History'

When lives are brutally at stake on a daily basis, few people think beyond the basic needs of staying alive, but the remarkable individuals revealed in "Who Will Write Our History" thought posterity was just as important as survival.

Poland's Warsaw Ghetto was such a place in the early 1940s, a nightmarish space where 450,000 Jews, preyed on by disease and starvation, barely existed in an area encircled and

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