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was an execution style by the Nazi. She herself survived only because the killers believed she was dead among all those that they killed. Additional reports show that her husband and children were killed by the Nazi first in front of her eyes as a form of punishment. In 1947, she attended an international women's conference in United States, held by
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in the early 1920s. After attending a lecture on exotic parasitology given by professor
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Giorgio Di Lotti and they had two children – Radbor and
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