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German embassy in Paris, and through his intervention Boden was able to escape, illegally, to Paris in autumn of 1940. In Paris she was able to resume her study of painting, now at the
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and his contribution to saving Jewish families scheduled for deportation to the death camps. These documents were enough to secure
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