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A ceaseless rain, a brother, a sister, a birthday, a treeseemingly ordinary. Over 4000 of those were children aged between 2 12. On 16 july 1942, french police raided the starzynski apartment in paris, arresting tenyearold sarah and her parents. On all the familys clothes, except her little brothers.