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I never kept the fact that I am a Jew a secret. In 1949, when I had to obtain a new passport I went to the passport office and a passport clerk looked up at me when it came to item 5 [17] and asked ‘What do I put in here? And I replied ‘what you see in my old passport’. She looked at me closely, probably thinking ‘What a fool you are’. I said again: ‘write what it says there. This is what I was born and I shall die what I am’. Many Jew changed their nationality then.
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Anna Gliena