Janka Gruenberger's Sacrifice

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Officer James Smith was sentenced to death by hanging Saturday after he rescued a Jewish mother and children from certain death. Gruenberger believes that the reason Officer Smith died is that he was sympathetic, being a father himself.
Janka Gruenberger and her three daughters were rescued from imminent death last week as they waited in line for the gas chamber. Janka pleaded for an officer to spare the lives of her and her three daughters. The officer accepted her plea since he had a kid of his own, and he knew how horrible it would be to lose a child. He took the back way to a factory so no one could see he was helping this family. When they made their way to a labor factor he gave each one of them a new age they needed to pretend to be.

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