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Dora Sorell Thesis

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Dora Sorell is born in the northern part of Romania. Her father marries her mother after the World War I. Sorell has 7 elder brothers and they all love each other. Since she is the only girl in the family, her brothers take good care of her. She spends her life time in Romania with a lot of Jewish people around her till her secondary education. She feels lucky that she can attend a heder. In the past, not much girls have the opportunity to go to school. When the World War II comes, she is forced to go to Auschwitz in Poland for a year. Afterwards, she survives and goes to a second camp in Weisswasser, Germany. While she is still there, she gets a numbered tattoo on her arm–this becomes part of her identity. As time passes, she is deliberated

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