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Jay Sommer

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Click on the chapters below to listen to Jay Sommers's story.

1. My Childhood Hero

2. Education

3. Challenges

4. 1941 - Forced into a Labor Camp

5. I Escaped to Budapest in 1942

6. Liberation in 1944

7. 1944-1948

8. America

9. Teaching

10. Telling My Story

11. A Few Questions For Jay

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