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Born in Russia, twenty-two year old Marc Mara Spiegel fled with his parents from there to Berlin, from Berlin to Warsaw, and, finally from Warsaw to this country in an effort to escape racial persecution. His mother has not been heard from since August 26, 1939, and, as far as he knows, she is still in the ruins of Warsaw, whether alive or dead, he cannot...
...parents, both physicians, made their first escape from oppression in 1921. Three years later, when Spiegel was only six, he had become one of the juvenile stars of German motion pictures and had been given the title of "German Jackie Coogan." He strongly resembled the original Coogan and still looks like him to a certain extent...
When Hitler began his first purge of the Jews in Germany, Spiegel's father, then general secretary of the German Red Cross, escaped Nazi Storm Troopers by jumping out the rear window of his office and fleeing to Warsaw. Spiegel himself remained in Berlin, until he became involved in a violent fight with the son of a Nazi leader for refusing to give the "Heil, Hitler" salute. In the fight the other boy suffered a fractured skull, and Spiegel had to flee to France, where he graduate from the University of Nancy...
Later he joined his father who had succeeded in establishing a travel agency in Warsaw. But disaster once again overtook the family when, in the Polish pogrom of August, 1937, an armed band of roughnecks broke into his father's office and injured the elder Spiegel...
This seal makes it seem that Gedaliah's appointment had the support of the prophet Jeremiah. Dr. Spiegel suggested that Jeremiah may even have played Laval to Gedaliah's Petain...