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They were German Jews who fled the Nazis for what then was the relative security of China and later had to flee the Communists there.

From BBC

Sheinbaum evoked the Holocaust, saying “many of my relatives ... were exterminated in concentration camps.”

An Instagram account previously used by Rivas has since been reactivated by her relatives.

Rohan Mehta, a software professional, has lived in the US with his family for 11 years but had travelled to Nagpur at the beginning of the month to see relatives commemorating his father's death.

From BBC

Moreover, we endure moral distress in relative isolation, an additional painful reality that makes everything worse.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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