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Capetonian survived Nazi death camps

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This year is the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, when unarmed Jews corralled into a 3.4km² ghetto in the Polish capital held off the might of the Nazi army for four weeks, often with nothing more than lead pipes and their bare fists.

By the time the German soldiers had finally razed the ghetto to the ground, 56 065 people had either been killed on the spot or deported to the Nazi death camps of Madjanek and Treblinka.

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