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My name is Zofia Yamaika. I was born into a prominent Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland. I was an average Jewish girl that had everything, a nice house, family, and education. Later, once I was a teenager, I joined a communist club called Spartacus and stayed in it, until Germany banned it. Then, when things couldn't get worse, they did; Warsaw, Poland surrendered to germany. After this, I stopped going to school; I knew my life was

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