Victims of a government determined to rid itself of Jews and foreigners. Tamara and her remaining family soon heard the Gestapo knocking at their door at dawn. They were deported: First to Turkey. then. as homeless refugees. to a village in Siberia where Tamaras mother and a brother died of exposure and malnutrition before they could be rescued. It is possible that the family might not have been spared this misery even if the Genocide Convention had existed in the 1930s. Perhaps the Convention would have made no difference. and perhaps the consensus of international opinion which it would have focused would not have made Nazi Germany observe even superficial proprieties.
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