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Jacob Wurzel, Oswiecim Survivor, Secretary of Hechalutz Movement of Bohemia-moravia, Dies

March 21, 1946
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Jacob Wurzel, secretary of the Hochalutz movement of Bohemia and Moravia, died today after a lengthy illness.

Wurzel, a former inmate of both the Theresienstadt and Oswiecim concentration camps, devoted himself to the rebuilding of the Jewish youth movement after his liberation.

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