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I know this is insane, but i somehow wish i had been in auschwitz with my parents so i could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.

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Art Spiegelman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 15
Cartoonist
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Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman
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