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she was born on November 7th to a small family in Amsterdam she was one of only two children they lived in a small house with not very much .
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nazi party is declared the only legal party in germany and laws are passed to strip jewish imigrants from there german citizenship
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Jewish people began to lose all there shops and owned businesses in Germany.
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the first killing operations began and that's when Marion new she had to make saving the children top priority and do it as smooth as possible
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this is where it all started , the German army invaded and occupied the Netherlands taking over all they could.
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the Germans began deporting more than 65,000 Jews to camps all over, the most common was the Chelmno killing center
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Marion Pritchard hid and protected a family of Jews for almost 3 years and even killed a dutch nazi to safe them from captivity
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she was all in it to fight for what she believed and to help as many people as she could through this hard time says Marion in a interview
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Marions best known rescue was of the frank family the rescue started in 1942 and her goal was to find a safe haven for him and his four children
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marion was arrested by the nazi police for covertly distributing broads sheets and although she spent 6 months in jail that didnt stop her from doing right and helping
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marion began to register jewish infints as her own children and found safe non jewish homes for each of the children she resscued
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she began to find ways to help jewish people get their ration cards and she aslo secured false identification papers to help them avoid capture from the nazis
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germany surrenders to the soviets and all jews who lived where released and the camps where beganing to be shut down
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Marion shot a soldier trying to discover where she was hiding Jews and put him in a coffin with another person without it being discovered by authorities.
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Mrs. Pitchard moved to the United States and continued her social work and dedicated most of her life time to helping others.
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BY the time Germans killed two out of the three Jews and they became less populated.
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By 1951 two or three million Jews and prisoners were killed due to starvation, neglect, and decease.
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she was reconized for being righteous among the nations meaning she risked her life without a reward to save jewish children and shelter there families .
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by this time marion had lied, stolen , and even cheated or killed to fight for the jews and help them. she risked alot to save jewish people
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marion began teaching an annual seminar about the holocaust history at clark state university in worcester massachusetts
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marion passed away in washington due to a illness she lived a long life and dedicated most of it to helping others . she passed at age 96
