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The Independent UK
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Lore Segal, esteemed Austrian American writer who fled the Nazis as a child, dies at 96

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Lore Segal, an esteemed Viennese American author and translator whose gift for words helped her family escape from the Nazis and who later drew upon her experiences as a Jewish refugee and immigrant for such fiction as “Other People's Houses” and “Her First American,” died Monday at 96.

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