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'Write Your Story' Program The 'Write Your Story' program is a well known cultural activity of Makor Library. Developed and co-ordinated by Julie Meadows, the program offers support for people to write their autobiographies, through classes and editorial advice, The memoirs that have resulted were written primarily for the children and grandchildren of the authors but it soon became apparent that they were attracting a wider audience. The 'Write Your Story' publications are now part of a growing archive, the Loti and Victor Smorgon archive, housed at Makor, that will furnish future readers and scholars with primary-source material on the social history of the Melbourne Jewish Community. Some of our writers are third-generation Australians but the majority are migrants or children of migrants. Whether the stories start in the 1880s, the 1930s or post-1945, they offer valuable information to future generations about the first-comers and the structures they built. |
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From left: Elfie Rosenberg, Helen Max, Tess Schwarz at the launch of their books |
From left: Garry Fabian, Myra Fisher, Paulette Goldberg, Eva Marks |
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You don't have to be a 'writer' yourself to write your story for your children, grandchildren, or yourself in a warm and encouraging atmosphere. Makor offers expert guidance with writing, editing and publication. A great range of backgrounds and experiences of those who make up our Community is brought to life in our weekly writing sessions. Classes run every Wednesday afternoon. Cost is $11 or $7.70 concession (including GST). For further information contact Leonie Fleiszig on 9272 5611.
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Click here to read an extract from the writings of Kitia Altman, one of our past class members.
''Write Your Story' Publications
Click to open the Write Your Story booklist with all publications as of September 2007 (pdf document);
To print out only the pricelist and order form click here.
Please mail or fax your order to Makor Library and we will post the books to your address.
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Memory Guide My Hand Volume 5 The 2nd anthology of life stories by members of the Melbourne Jewish Community from the former Soviet Union |
$30 | |
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Memory Guide My Hand Volume 4 An Anthology of life stories by members of the Melbourne Jewish Community from the former Soviet Union |
$35 | |
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Memory Guide My Hand Volume 3 An Anthology of Autobiographic Writings by Members of the Melbourne Jewish Community |
$30 |
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Memory Guide My Hand Volume 2 An Anthology of Autobiographic Writings by Members of the Melbourne Jewish Community |
N/A | |
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Memory Guide My Hand - Volume 1 An Anthology of Autobiographic Writings by Members of the Melbourne Jewish Community |
N/A | |
| Ajzen, Chaim |
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Chaim Ajzen Remembers | $20 |
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Ajzner, Hania |
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Hania's War |
$25
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Altman, Kitia |
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Memories Of Ordinary People For those who have no one to remember them
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$35 |
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Arnstein, Lenke |
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Recurring Dreams |
$25 |
| Barclay, Henry |
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Run Henry Run Chemist, Legionnaire, Scout
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$25 |
| Barnett,Mel |
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Arnaff Good f'r a Dalston Boy An East London Childhood |
$25 |
| Beckwith, Doreen |
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Full Circle The Story of a Chained Woman |
$25 |
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Benjamin, Sydney A.B. |
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A Full House |
$22
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| Bergman, Bella |
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Leaves of My Life | N/A |
| Birner, John |
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Changing Landscapes The story of my formative years |
N/A |
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Boas, Bernard A.
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The Five Books Of Boas
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$25 |
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Borenstein, Henry |
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All Alone A young boy hiding in wartime Poland
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$20 |
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Buckner, Ille
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Starts and Pauses
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N/A |
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Censor, Maria |
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Letters To My Mother |
$20
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Cherny, Sylvia
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Who is Sylvia?
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N/A |
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Cooper, Leo
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The Long Road to the Lucky Country
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$28 |
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Ekstein, Elka |
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Chutzpe un Draystkayt A teenager with chutzpah and teneacity in the Holocaust
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$20 |
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Eidelson, Meyer |
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Books, Tanks and Radios
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$20 |
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Eisfelder, Horst ‘Peter’ |
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Chinese Exile
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$25 |
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Erlanger, Arnold |
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Choose Life |
$25 |
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Fabian, Garry |
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A Look Back Over My Shoulder |
$22 |
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Feiglin, Aaron |
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Growing Up With The Trees
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$20 |
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Fisher,
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Cossacks, Cockneys And Colonials |
$25 |
| Fleiszig, Laszlo and Katalin |
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Interesting Times
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N/A |
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Friedmann, Jakob
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Reluctant soldier
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$25 |
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Gardner, Helen |
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My Mother's Child |
$27.50
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Gersten, Dora |
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Memoirs of a Certain Period in Our Lives
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N/A |
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Ginzburg, George |
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A Will to Live Autobiography |
$35 |
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Goldberg, Paulette |
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Just Think It Never Happened |
$25 |
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Goldrei, Naomi |
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The Champions Of My Childhood |
$25 |
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Goldstein, Guta |
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There Will Be Tomorrow |
$25
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Gould, Lucy |
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Empty Corners |
$22
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Gray,
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A Spoonful of Soup:
and Other Stories
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$25 |
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Grinblat, Ian |
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Nachum Zalman Gurewicz: a life |
$25 |
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Gust, Itzhak
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Such Was Life
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$28 |
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Haberfeld, Lusia |
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Lauferin
The Runner Of Birkenau |
$25
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Harari, Mayer |
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Second Exodus |
$25
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Jacobs, Anne |
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Alien Roots
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$30 |
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Jawary, Sabiha |
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N/A |
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Kay, David as told to Ian Grinblat
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$25
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Korda, Teri |
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My Dear Andrea And Andris |
$25
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| Korn, Henri |
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Saviours The Story of a Jewish Altar Boy |
$20 |
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Kozminsky-Meyerowitz, Mena |
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Keeping the Promise Memories of a War Bride from Israel |
$25 |
| Landau, Alice |
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Snippets from my Family Album Csepel Island to Caulfield |
$30 |
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Lawner, Helen |
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A three generational perspective Surviving the Warsaw Ghetto |
$30 |
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Leperere, Helen |
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Memoirs And Reflections |
$11 |
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Mandelbaum, Rae |
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Echoes From The Past
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$15.40
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Marks, Eva |
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A Patchwork Life |
$25 |
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Max, Helen |
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Searching For Yesterday
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$29
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Milder, Marie |
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Hard Memories
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N/A |
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Morris, Danny |
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Behind the Fence
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$20 |
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Olenski, Luba |
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A Life Reclaimed
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$25 |
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Parush, Eva |
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This is my life:
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$20 |
| Philips, Hartog (Harry) |
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Just Call Me Harry Growing Up in A Dutch Village |
$25 |
| Randles, Shirley |
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No Locked Doors Jewish life in Shepparton |
$28 |
| Reichman Mara |
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Spared For A Purpose The music lives on
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$25
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Reisman, Kathy |
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More Than Nine Lives |
$25
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Robin, Moshe and Stefa |
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Stepping Into Life |
$25
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Rosenberg, Elfie |
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Serry And Me
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$25
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Rosner, Maurie |
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The
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$25
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Roth, Marianne |
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An Intricate Collage |
$20
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Rubin, Wolf |
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Wolf: Surviving By Art |
$25 |
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Sandy. Kitty |
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Stormy Weather
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$25 |
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Schimmel, Marilyn
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Pola's Story
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$25
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Schreiber, Vera |
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The Porcelain Doll |
$22 |
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Schwartz, Schmul |
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Under Red Skies Dreams and reality |
$20
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Schwarz, Tess |
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The First Forty Families
Bringing My Family Tree and Forest to Life |
$30 |
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Searle, Freda |
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Memory's Wings And Apron Strings |
$20
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| Sharpe, Annita |
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Escape to Les Vignes A childhood in Nazi-occupied France |
$25 |
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Skall, Lily |
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My Story |
$20 |
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Speiser, Trude |
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Trude's Story A journey from Vienna via Shanghai to Melbourne |
N/A |
| Steinbok, Fela |
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My Life Surviving in Russia |
$25 |
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Stern, Max |
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My Stamp on Life |
$25 |
| Eva Urbach |
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Through Coloured Glass Reflections on my changing world |
$25 |
| van Rijsdijk, Mink |
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The Shoes of a Foundling | $25 |
| Wright, Sue |
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A Ballad by Johannes Brahms A journey to understand a childhood in Vienna shattered by Nazism |
$25 |
| Wroby, Godel |
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My Battle for Survival From Mlyny to Melbourne |
$25 |
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Zylberman, Halina |
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Swimming Under Water |
$25
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