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TIL of the Karaite Jews, an ancient sect hailing from Turkic countries. In 1934, members of the Karaite community asked the Nazis to exempt Karaites from the anti-Semitic laws based on their legal status as Russians, sparing them from the horrors of the Holocaust, despite them being fully Jewish

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