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- ↑ MacAskill, Ewen; Franklin, Jonathan (14 December 2016). "Latin America's Schindler: a forgotten hero of the 20th century | Ewen MacAskill" – via www.theguardian.com.
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- ↑ http://www.robertlenkiewicz.org/sites/default/files/rol15_056_dr_sheila_a._cassidy_-_medical_director._1982.jpg A portrait of Dr Cassidy from 1982 by Robert Lenkiewicz (1941-2002)
