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" I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left. "

Chantal Akerman

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" My mother arrived in Brussels in 1938 from a small town near Krakow. But strangely enough, in 1942 or 1943, she was taken back to Auschwitz, which was just 30 miles from where she grew up. Her parents died there and a lot of her family. "

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