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Germany. At that time, she was still known as "the little Catholic girl". She was taken as a prisoner of war to Germany, not as a Jew. Being a prisoner in Germany was not as bad as being a child in the concentration camps. In Germany, she was tortured but not beaten. After the war with Germany was over she moved to England and has lived there ever since. In the last 25 years in England she has re-enacted her life in a play called "Who Do We Think We Are," choreographed plays, acted in celebrated movies, danced, and written a book.
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