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Why Did Hitler Bomb Me? Girl Asks

September 16, 1940
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Six-year-old Selma Gershowitz, is bewildered, not angry, over the loss of her hand as a result of injuries suffered in Monday’s air raid.

When this correspondent visited her in the Hadassah Hospital shortly after her hand had been amputated, she muttered: “Why did Hitler throw a bomb on me, what did I do to him?”

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