Mistress of Life and Death
The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
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The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing machine and one of the few female perpetrators of the Holocaust.
By the time of her execution at thirty-six, Maria Mandl had achieved the highest rank possible for a woman in the Third Reich. As Head Overseer of the women's camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, she was personally responsible for the murders of thousands.
In this riveting biography, Susan J. Eischeid explores how Maria Mandl, regarded locally as "a nice girl from a good family," came to embody the very worst of humanity. Born in 1912 in the scenic Austrian village of Münzkirchen, Maria enjoyed a happy childhood with loving parents—who later watched in anguish as their grown daughter rose through the Nazi system.
For two decades, Eischeid has excavated the details of Mandl's life story, drawing on archival testimonies, speaking to dozens of witnesses, and spending time with Mandl's community of friends and neighbors who shared their memories as well as those handed down in their families. The result is a chilling and complex exploration of how easily an ordinary citizen chose the path of evil in a climate of hate and fear.
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Five Chimneys
- A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz
- De: Olga Lengyel
- Narrado por: Jennifer Wydra
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 430
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Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Five Chimneys
- De Grannie Annie en 04-03-19
De: Olga Lengyel
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Rescued from the Ashes
- The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto
- De: Leokadia Schmidt, Oscar E. Swan - translator
- Narrado por: Rebecca Gibel
- Duración: 15 h y 50 m
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The diary of a young Jewish housewife who, together with her husband and five-month-old baby, fled the Warsaw ghetto at the last possible moment, and survived the Holocaust hidden on the "Aryan" side of town in the loft of a run-down tinsmith's shed. Rescued from the Ashes documents the incredible life story of Leokadia Schmidt and her small family and their daily struggle to survive the Warsaw Ghetto.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing details
- De Holly H en 12-11-24
De: Leokadia Schmidt, y otros
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Inside the Gas Chambers
- Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
- De: Shlomo Venezia
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 102
Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz. His mother and sisters disappeared on arrival, and he learned, at first with disbelief, that they had almost certainly been gassed. Given the chance to earn a little extra bread, he agreed to become a 'Sonderkommando', without realizing what this entailed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book
- De Rodney en 03-14-23
De: Shlomo Venezia
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Cold Crematorium
- Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
- De: József Debreczeni, Paul Olchváry - translator, Jonathan Freedland
- Narrado por: Laurence Dobiesz
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 135
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 125
József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go “left,” his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the “lucky” ones, he was sent to the “right,” which led to twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labor in a series of camps, ending in the “Cold Crematorium”—the so-called hospital of the forced labor camp Dörnhau, where prisoners too weak to work awaited execution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Learned so much more about the Holocaust
- De Jerseygirl en 02-03-24
De: József Debreczeni, y otros
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Into the Forest
- A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
- De: Rebecca Frankel
- Narrado por: Natalie Pela
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 296
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 260
In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids—until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war, they trekked across the Alps into Italy, where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story with an added benefit
- De Scottsville Stu en 12-30-21
De: Rebecca Frankel
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All the Horrors of War
- A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
- De: Bernice Lerner
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. Waiting for him were 10,000 unburied, putrefying corpses and 60,000 living prisoners, starving and sick. One month earlier, 15-year-old Rachel Genuth arrived at Bergen-Belsen; deported with her family from Sighet, Transylvania, in May of 1944, Rachel had by then already endured Auschwitz, the Christianstadt labor camp, and a forced march through the Sudetenland.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Definitely must listen to
- De Misti en 08-10-23
De: Bernice Lerner
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The Master of Auschwitz:
- Memoirs of Rudolf Hoess, Kommandant SS
- De: Rudolf Hoess
- Narrado por: Tim Dalgleish
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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The first-hand account of the life, career, and the practices of horror at Auschwitz, written by Auschwitz Kommandant SS Rudolf Hoss as he awaited execution for his crimes. Including his psychological interviews at Nuremberg.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Banality of Evil…a Memoir
- De Tim en 03-16-17
De: Rudolf Hoess
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Beyond the Last Path
- A Buchenwald Survivor's Story
- De: Eugene Weinstock
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 50
This is the story of No. 22483, who had been shipped from Belgium to Buchenwald. It records what he saw and felt during his calvary from Antwerp to the Malin distribution camp in France and from there to the extermination camp of Buchenwald. He was one of the few people who both entered a Nazi concentration camp and left again. This is his remarkable personal story that records his experiences of one of the most harrowing events in human history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Is it a testimony, or a work of fiction?
- De Noa en 01-01-20
De: Eugene Weinstock
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Sabina
- In the Eye of the Storm
- De: Bella Kuligowska Zucker
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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This is the memoir written by Bella Kuligowska Zucker, the only person in her family to survive the Holocaust. In September 1939, Bella was a carefree teenager living in Poland when the German army struck. She was rounded up with her friends and family and sent to a series of grim Jewish ghettos. After loved ones were separated and lost through the war years, Bella survived by changing her identity. After finding the birth certificate of a Catholic girl five years her senior, she became Sabina Mazurek. Then she went into the eye of the storm, Germany.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Alone without family
- De Nancy F. en 04-17-25
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The Daughter of Auschwitz
- My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope
- De: Tova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 467
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A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting and well told
- De Tracy F. en 03-31-23
De: Tova Friedman, y otros
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Nazis Knew My Name
- A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz
- De: Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee, David Brewster
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton, Zoe Carides
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 44
In March 1942, 25-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other young women were deported as some of the first Jews to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The SS soon discovered that by putting prisoners in charge of the day-to-day accommodation blocks, they could deflect attention away from themselves. Magda was one such prisoner selected for leadership and put in charge of hundreds of women in the notorious Experimental Block 10. She found herself constantly walking a dangerously fine line: saving lives while avoiding suspicion by the SS.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary courage.
- De Alice@Wonderland en 10-01-24
De: Magda Hellinger, y otros
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Nazi Wives
- The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
- De: James Wyllie
- Narrado por: Dalya Raphael
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 160
Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann - names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margarete, Lina, Ilse, and Gerda. These are the women behind the infamous men - complex individuals with distinctive personalities who were captivated by Hitler and whose everyday lives were governed by Nazi ideology. Throughout the rise and fall of Nazism these women loved and lost, raised families, and quarreled with their husbands and each other, all the while jostling for position with the Fuhrer himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Scary
- De Three River en 05-15-21
De: James Wyllie
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Empire of Destruction
- A History of Nazi Mass Killing
- De: Alex J. Kay
- Narrado por: Tom Lawrence
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12
Nazi Germany killed approximately 13 million civilians and other noncombatants in deliberate policies of mass murder, overwhelmingly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust, the core of the Nazis’ pan-European racial purification program. Alex Kay argues that the genocide of European Jewry can also be examined in the wider context of Nazi mass killing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bleak, terrifying. Plumbs the depths
- De Dr Philip N Best en 11-22-22
De: Alex J. Kay
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The Secret Holocaust Diaries
- The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister
- De: Nonna Bannister, Denise George, Carolyn Tomlin
- Narrado por: Rebecca Gallagher
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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For half a century, a terrible secret lay hidden, locked in a trunk in an attic... photos, official documents, and scraps of a diary written by a young girl. "The time has come when I must share my life story... some facts from the past that could make a contribution, however small it may be, to the history of mankind." The Secret Holocaust Diaries is a haunting eyewitness account of Nonna Lisowskaja Bannister, a remarkable Russian-American woman who saw and survived unspeakable evils as a young girl.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I respect Nonna
- De Susan en 12-26-11
De: Nonna Bannister, y otros
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First One In, Last One Out
- Auschwitz Survivor 31321: A Memoir
- De: Marilyn Shimon
- Narrado por: Sarah Borges
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
The horrifying true story of one of the first eight men to enter Auschwitz. Growing up in New York, Marilyn Shimon often visited her uncle in California. She saw his scars, gaped at his 31321 tattoo and listened to his horrific stories of surviving the Holocaust. However, she could not relate to the suffering he endured or understand the significance of his accounts until now.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Horrible narrator
- De Rachel Comegys en 09-06-24
De: Marilyn Shimon
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The Survivor
- How I Made it Through Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter
- De: Josef Lewkowicz
- Narrado por: Price Waldman
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 34
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When Nazi forces entered Kraków, Poland in 1939, unexpected and unresisted, Josef Lewkowicz's life became a nightmare overnight as he and his family were rounded up and sent to concentration camps across German-occupied territory. It wasn't long before Josef found himself face-to-face with SS kommandant Amon Goeth, whose brutality was made infamous by the film Schindler's List. As Josef struggled to survive the violence, horror, and degradations of one prison camp after another—he was kept alive only by his faith and his profound sense of justice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A vital book you must read.
- De Evan Brown en 04-22-25
De: Josef Lewkowicz
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What Papa Told Me
- De: Felice Cohen
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 2 h y 19 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 8
From this book, What Papa Told Me, you will learn about the story of Murray, a young Jewish boy from Poland whose courage and sheer will to live helped him survive eight different labor and concentration camps in the Holocaust, start a new life in America, and keep a family intact in the aftermath of his wife's suicide - one of the Nazis' last victims.
De: Felice Cohen
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The Hangman and His Wife
- The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich
- De: Nancy Dougherty, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 26 h y 12 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
He was called the Hangman of the Gestapo, the "butcher of Prague", with a reputation as a ruthlessly efficient killer. He was the head of the SS, and the Gestapo, second-in-command to Heinrich Himmler. His orders set in motion the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938 and, as the lead planner of Hitler's Final Solution, he chaired the Wannsee Conference, at which details of the murder of millions of Jews across Nazi-occupied Europe were toasted with cognac.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Evil explained....NOT!
- De C. P. O. Carroll en 06-23-22
De: Nancy Dougherty, y otros
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- Kristen
- 02-09-25
Narration was rough…
But the story overall was very interesting. I believe the author did a great job sticking to facts of the history of events without adding too much of their own opinion on the individual herself as well as the victims.
The narrator however often sounded like AI. Very robotic at times like Siri.
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- KCD
- 02-19-25
Riveting & sorrowful
I really enjoyed the pace of this book. I finished it within a couple of days. Horrific subject matter & a perplexing study of an individual who seemingly had no reason to be so hateful & unspeakably cruel. Books like this important so that the horrors of the holocaust are not repeated.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-09-24
Wow!
It was an interesting discussion on evil and what makes us all capable of it!
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