Word: pavla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case began on New Year's Day 1941, when a baby boy was born to Ivan and Pavla Pirecnik in the village of Sostanj in Yugoslavia. The Pirecniks named the boy after his father. Two years later, the Germans shot down Ivan Pirecnik for working with the partisans; they sent his wife to Auschwitz concentration camp, and little Ivan to a German orphanage maintained by Hitler...
Meanwhile, Mrs. Pavla Pirecnik, released from Auschwitz, had returned to Yugoslavia and begun her search for her son. The International Refugee Organization found Ivan. Mrs. Pirecnik petitioned for his return and the I.R.O. brought the case to the U.S. court at Marburg...
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