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Refugee Commits Suicide on Way Here

January 21, 1940
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A Jewish refugee from Germany, Manfred Bender, 36, haunted by memories of his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, committed suicide while en route to the United States on the British liner Scythia by leaping overboard, his widow revealed today when the ship arrived here.

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