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Category: Books
Related period: Second World War (content), Interwar (content), Second World War (content)
Creator: UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM (Author)
VICTIMS OF THE NAZI ERA, 1933-1945 (Author)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Publisher)
Place made: Washington, D.C.
Dimensions: whole: Dimensions: 23cm., Pagination: ca.21p. ill., ports.
Catalogue number: LBY K. 98 / 439

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