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Friday, July
11, 2008 — Over the past 66 years, Irene Famulak’s thoughts often strayed
thousands of miles from her home in Philadelphia, PA. Irene remembered the
Ukraine. She could close her eyes and see her mother, her father, her six
brothers and sisters. Time and again, Irene re-lived that day in 1942 when Nazis
invaded her home, captured her family and separated them. As Nazi troops took
her away, Irene remembers her little brother, George (Wssewolod) Galizkij,
pulling on the hem of her dress, begging her not to go. She spent the rest of
the war serving as a cook in a concentration camp in Germany without seeing her
family again.
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