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Metro engineer Zdzislaw Przygoda recalls Christmas 1944 as a young Pole in a concentration camp near Stuttgart.
Metro engineer Zdzislaw Przygoda recalls Christmas 1944 as a young Pole in a concentration camp near Stuttgart.

Metro engineer Zdzislaw Przygoda recalls Christmas 1944 as a young Pole in a concentration camp near Stuttgart.

Date12/15/1986
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0132394F
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