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| Sadako Sasaki |
Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl who was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, near her home in Hiroshima, Japan. Sadako is remembered through the story of a thousand origami cranes before her death at the age of 12, and is to this day a symbol of innocent victims of war.
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| Herschel Grynszpan |
Herschel Grynszpan was a Polish-Jewish refugee, born in Germany. At the age of 17, his assassination of the Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath on November 7, 1938, in Paris provided the Nazis with the pretext for the Kristallnacht, the antisemitic pogrom of November 9-10, 1938.
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| Tillie Pierce |
Matilda "Tillie" Pierce was only 15 at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg. Yet her writings of those dramatic three days would make her famous. She would become known as the voice of the civilian side of this most important Civil War battle.
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WITNESS TO THE FIRST THANKSGIVING
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