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TIL that Sergio De Simone, a 7 yo child, was deported in 1944 to Auschwitz and was then sent to Neuengamme camp to be experimented on by nazi doctors (under the promise to see his mother again). He was murdered in 1945 with other 20 kids so that the Allies would not find proof of what was going on.

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