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A Holocaust survivor's fight against forgetting

Holocaust survivor Mala Tribich was 14 years old when she was imprisoned in Germany's Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She endured unspeakable horrors – but remains determined to bear witness to the atrocities committed by the Nazis.

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