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The Warsaw ghetto

On the 18 of January 1943, German soldiers began a final drive to empty the Polish capital of Jews.

It was also the day on which the first shots were fired in the Warsaw ghetto uprising.

Janina David, 12-years-old at the time, survived.

(Photo: Keystone/Getty Images)

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