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BETWEEN 1940 and 1945, over 100,000 Jews were deported from the Netherlands and murdered. Of these, 18,000 were children.
A few years ago, Dutch historian Guus Luijters was writing a book about the Jewish, Roma and Sinti children killed during the German occupation of the Netherlands and came across the name of Sientje Abram, a nine-year-old girl from Amsterdam, but he could find out nothing about her.
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