I lived, while 1 1/2 million Jewish children died. So I have an obligation to repair the world.
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I think I was fortunate that even in the children's home I had a boyfriend. How important it was, as an orphan at the age of 12, to be caressed and to be kissed and to know that there is someone who really deeply cared about me.
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