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Lena Lang lived close to the horrifying Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, where she could see the prisoners shuffling past, accompanied by brutal SS who didn't hesitate to use their guns. Lena lived with her parents and younger sister Greta, who suffered seizures after an accident which caused brain damage. They had to keep Greta inside, away from prying Nazi eyes, or she would end up in Mauthausen along with her family who'd been sheltering her. Lena learned of Nico, one of the prisoner
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This is a story filled with heartbreak, courage and hope, set over a few time lines we are transported back to a concentration camp in Austria, Mauthausen and the horrors that that the prisoners were subjected to but one prisoner, Spanish fighter Mateo Baca is made to take photos of prisoners and events that happen, he is told to make five photo albums but Mateo makes six and with the help if Yugoslav, Nico and young Spanish boy Santiago they hide an extra photo album and with the help of local
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