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- ↑ Kate Connolly (14 February 2022). "Holocaust victim's opera stored for years in trunk gets premiere at last". the Guardian. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
- ↑ The Guardian: Fri 18 Feb 2022 18.01 GMT Letters Harry Schneider Rediscovered opera’s origins in a novel by Germany’s Charles Dickens
- ↑ Grete Minde
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