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Elie Wiesel Quotes: In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
         

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.


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