Interview with JyJow Doong on 12/3/2023

I spoke with my Gradnmother who is 78 years old and we talked about what spending time in the concentration camps during World War 2 was like. We also discussed how life was after this event as well.

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Cornelius Vink, Catharina Vink, and Amanda Testa

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