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Maria Jacobs: Poet melds prose and poetry to tell the story of how her mother hid four Jews through three years of the German occupation of Holland: One careless move could have killed us
Maria Jacobs: Poet melds prose and poetry to tell the story of how her mother hid four Jews through three years of the German occupation of Holland: One careless move could have killed us

Maria Jacobs: Poet melds prose and poetry to tell the story of how her mother hid four Jews through three years of the German occupation of Holland: One careless move could have killed us

Date7/20/1983
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Original Toronto Star caption: Maria Jacobs: Poet melds prose and poetry to tell the story of how her mother hid four Jews through three years of the German occupation of Holland: One careless move could have killed us.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0099832F
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