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Mary holds the medal and looks down at it inside her house wearing a floral blouse and wearing glasses.

A white apartment block in a suburb photogaphed from the street.

"One day, the Germans came to the door to go through the house and they were there for eight hours knocking on the walls,"
she said.

A close up photo of Mary's hands holding the Righteous of the Nations medal.

"Sometimes they'd only have a little loaf of bread to feed them for the week."

A black and white photo of Louisa and Marinus Berghuis being presented with a medal.

Louisa and Alex sit at a kitchen table, Louisa wearing a white blouse and Alex wears a blue shirt.

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