158:. Avery Sandberg was the eldest of three brothers - Avery, Arthur, and Hershel to their parents, Rivka Shapiro Sandberg and Jacob Sandberg. The Sandberg family lived in a wooden house on Tolstoho Street without central heating or electricity. Once a week, pails of water from a well two blocks away would be carried home for the family to take a bath. As Jewish people, they were not allowed to live near or go to school with the Polish. Sarny was a Jewish community with its own Hebrew schools and
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Sandberg, Avery A.; Bridge, Julia A. (2000). "Updates on cytogenetics and molecular genetics of bone and soft tissue tumors: Ewing sarcoma and peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumors".
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