307:, who occasionally wore the Ustaše uniform. In the words of Deutsch's friend Nika Grgić, this young man offered to falsely marry Lea in an attempt to save her from deportation, but that was not done for unknown reasons. Later it was discovered that Deutsch's mother did not want to consent to the wedding, because Lea was still a minor at the time.
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on her sleeves, staring for hours at the building where once she was a star, and now she couldn't even enter the building."
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