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How Did Henryk Mandelbaum Affect Human History

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There are few times in human history where murder was committed with a magnitude comparable to that of the Holocaust. The Holocaust permanently affected human history, especially those who were victims of it.
Henryk Mandelbaum was born into a poor Polish family on December 15, 1922 in Olkusz, Poland and in 1940 Mandelbaum’s life changed. Under domination of the Nazis after the invasion of Poland, Mandelbaum’s family was relocated to the Dabrowa Gornicza ghetto where Henryk was separated from his parents who were sent to Sosnowiec. For four years, Henryk went into hiding, avoiding the ghetto, and risked his life smuggling food to the starving Jews inside the ghetto.
In 1944, Mandelbaum’s life as the Jewish Robin Hood was over when he was arrested

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