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Born: August 18, 1920 in Kaluszyn, Poland
Born: March 19, 1885 in Budapest, Hungary
Born: April 15, 1920 in Lvov, Poland
Born: 1925 in Vienna, Austria
Born: 1900 in Lodz, Poland
Born: April 1, 1937 in Vienna, Austria
Born: 1913 in Bologna, Italy
Born: October 17, 1924 in Praszka, Poland
Born: March 25, 1910 in Bratislava, Slovakia
Born: May 12, 1906 in Erdobenye, Hungary
Born: July 9, 1928 in Volosyanka, Czechoslovakia
Born: July 14, 1930 in Cristuru-Secuiesc, Romania
Born: July 18, 1913 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
Born: 1918 in Radom, Poland
Born: January 19, 1923 in Magovka, Soviet Union
Born: February 12, 1880 in Berlin, Germany
Born: 1874 in Reichenbach im Odenwald, Germany
Born: May 17, 1912 in Warsaw, Poland
Born: April 2, 1898 in Zagyvapalfalva, Hungary
Born: February 15, 1915 in Reichenbach im Odenwald, Germany
Born: June 30, 1923 in Berlin, Germany
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