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right for work or to the left for the gas chamber. Wallace was sent to the right. Wallace was transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in January 1945 and was alive when Canadian soldiers liberated it in April 1945, but her parents and all but one of her seven siblings were dead. She learned her son Liebela survived the camps only to be shot by Polish soldiers. She was reunited with husband Jankiel Lustig, who soon >>>STORY, page 15
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