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That history was very different from most of the rest of todays ukraine, and it made an important difference to holocaust survival rates among bukovinas jews. In fact, a number of these books were authored by usafss veterans. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the cambridge dictionary editors or of cambridge university press or its licensors. The oral history of an intelligence operation committed to paper.
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