“The Nazi murder squads just wouldn't waste a bullet on a child. I just couldn't process that. I couldn't handle it.”

—  Natasha Kaplinsky

On learning that two relatives, aged 2 and 9, were battered to death by the Nazis.
"Kaplinsky's tears over family secret", interview in Metro, Tue August 28 2007, p. 23

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