Word: pirecniks
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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...
Last week Mrs. Pirecnik was in Germany to appeal the verdict. When she saw her son for the first time in ten years she broke down, sobbing: "Das ist mein Ivan." In the quiet chambers of Chief Justice Clark, Ivan was questioned...
Nevertheless, Justice Marc Robinson changed his opinion in the case. The verdict was now two for Mrs. Pirecnik, one for Mrs. Sirsch. This week Ivan went back to Yugoslavia with his real mother...
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