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Hilde Sherman
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During World War II , she was deported to the Riga Ghetto in December 1941 by the Nazis. She later emigrated to Colombia. She published her memoir, Entre luz y tinieblas and Zwischen Tag und Dunkel : Mädchenjahre im Ghetto , in 1982 and 1984. She also spoke to Yad Vashem about her ordeal. She retired in Jerusalem , Israel , where she died in 2011.
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german holocaust survivor and memoirist
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holocaust survivor
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