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I was born in Breslau (now called Wrozlaw, Poland) and I remember the Rissions coming to our town and telling us we had to get out. All the men had gone to war already, so it was just women and children. We had to pack up very quickly and could only take what we could carry or wear. My mother knew that she might be stopped by a Russian soldier and was instructed to hand over her jewelry to him. So she was very clever and sewed some of her jewelry into the hem of her coat!

I still have a small ring of hers.

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