Speaker 1: Pushkin.
Speaker 2: It was nineteen fifty one, and a young American serviceman
Speaker 2: named Johnny lay dying on the dirty floor of a
Speaker 2: mud walled hut. He was a prisoner of war, one
Speaker 2: of thousands of US soldiers who had the bad luck
Speaker 2: to be here, a Chinese run camp in the far
Speaker 2: north of Korea. Death was everywhere in the camp, death
Speaker 2: from dysentery and pneumonia and starvation, deaths from untreated battle
Speaker 2: wounds left to faster, and deaths like Johnny, a soldier
Speaker 2: exhausted after months of abuse and captivity, unable to eat
Speaker 2: or move, slowly abandoning the will to live. The other
Speaker 2: POWs called it ghivapitis. There was someone else in the
Speaker 2: room with Johnny, a scrawny twenty one year old soldier
Speaker 2: with a thick head of hair and an even thicker
Speaker 2: Eastern European accent. He knelt beside Johnny and said, the
Speaker 2: Red Cross has just dropped off their newest medicine. I'll
Speaker 2: give it to you, but in turn, you have to
Speaker 2: pull yourself together. You can't give up. Then he gave
Speaker 2: Johnny a small brown pill. The other prisoners in the
Speaker 2: camp had noticed this man with the medicine. Something was
Speaker 2: different about him. When they couldn't stand up and were
Speaker 2: lying in their own filth, he washed them clean. He
Speaker 2: picked the light off them when they couldn't do it themselves.
Speaker 2: He sneaked bits of food to men who were dying
Speaker 2: of hunger, and he made them smile. He cracked jokes
Speaker 2: and clowned around. He reminded them of the great life
Speaker 2: waiting for them back home in America. They just had
Speaker 2: to live long enough to make it there. That guy
Speaker 2: with the accent wasn't a doctor, or a clergyman, or
Speaker 2: even an officer. He didn't have any influence or special training.
Speaker 2: What he did have was experience, experience in a camp
Speaker 2: even worse than this one, a place he'd lived when
Speaker 2: he was just fourteen years old, a Nazi death can
Speaker 2: I'm Malcolm Gladwell and this is Medal of Honor Stories
Speaker 2: of Courage. The Medal of Honor is the highest military
Speaker 2: decoration in the United States, awarded for gallantry and bravery
Speaker 2: in combat at the risk of life, above and beyond
Speaker 2: the call of duty. Each candidate must be approved all
Speaker 2: the way up the chain of command, from the supervisory
Speaker 2: officer in the field to the White House This show
Speaker 2: is about those heroes, what they did, what it meant,
Speaker 2: and what their stories tell us about the nature of
Speaker 2: courage and sacrifice. Today's episode is about Taibor Rubin, the
Speaker 2: only Holocaust survivor to win the Medal of Honor. His
Speaker 2: story is about more than courage and bravery. It's about
Speaker 2: compassion and the simple truth that sometimes hope is the
Speaker 2: most powerful defense we have. Tybar Ruben was born in
Speaker 2: nineteen twenty nine in a small town in Hungary. He
Speaker 2: had a loving family with four older siblings and a
Speaker 2: little sister. He adored parents, who took care of him
Speaker 2: a nice house. As a kid, he was always getting
Speaker 2: into scrapes, playing soccer with his big brother Emory, typical
Speaker 2: kid stuff. It wasn't fancy, but life was pretty good,
Speaker 2: except that Taibor was Jewish and the Third Reich was
Speaker 2: on the rise in nearby Germany. By the end of
Speaker 2: the nineteen thirties, the Hungarian government had begun emulating the Nazis,
Speaker 2: denying Jews equal rights under the law. There were jobs
Speaker 2: they couldn't hold. I didn't marry Christians. Then in nineteen forty
Speaker 2: Hungary formally joined the Axis Alliance. Even so, Hungarian Jews
Speaker 2: were more protected than Jews in other access countries. The
Speaker 2: government refused to deport its Jewish citizens to concentration camps,
Speaker 2: despite pressure from their Nazi allies, so the Ruben family
Speaker 2: felt relatively safe in their home country, even as things turned.
Speaker 2: After all, Tiber's father was a decorated soldier of the
Speaker 2: First World War. He was a patriot. More than that,
Speaker 2: the Rubens believed in the essential goodness of people. They
Speaker 2: taught Tibor and his siblings to act with compassion, even
Speaker 2: when everything in his life argued against it. Tiber never
Speaker 2: let go of that lesson. Here he is talking about
Speaker 2: them in that super thick Hungarian accent.
Speaker 3: I told you about I might ever seen used to
Speaker 3: all these stylars. Don't say anything bad about anybody. You
Speaker 3: don't know anything good. You don't ever hurt anybody because
Speaker 3: maybe we have a different religion. But according to the
Speaker 3: good Lord that's your brothers.
Speaker 2: Everything changed. In March of nineteen forty four, the Nazis
Speaker 2: seized power in Hungary. Almost immediately, plans were drawn up
Speaker 2: for the transportation of the country's Jews, about half a
Speaker 2: million people, to extermination camps. The Hungarian authorities didn't stand
Speaker 2: in the way of the plan, and as the Nazis
Speaker 2: began rounding up Jews or just killing them on the spot,
Speaker 2: it became clear that the world wasn't working according to
Speaker 2: the Reuben family values. Soon Taibar was hearing whispered conversations
Speaker 2: between his parents. Refugees were coming through their little village
Speaker 2: on the run from the Nazis. The world was getting darker.
Speaker 2: Emory was twenty, and their parents worried he would be
Speaker 2: pressed into military service, so this sent him across the
Speaker 2: border to Czechoslovakia, where an aunt lived. She had arranged
Speaker 2: for Emory to hide with a friend who was a gentile.
Speaker 2: Tiber worshiped his brother and was paniced to watch him go,
Speaker 2: but Emory promised Tiber he'd be back soon. Just a
Speaker 2: few months later, a group of Polish men were passing
Speaker 2: through town on the run for Switzerland. Tiber's parents met
Speaker 2: with the men and made a wrenching decision Tiber should
Speaker 2: leave with them. He had to try to escape what
Speaker 2: was coming. They sent their son off with a group
Speaker 2: of total strangers. They were that desperate to save him.
Speaker 2: Tiber was fourteen. After days of trekking, the group reached
Speaker 2: the Swiss border, only to be captured by the Nazis.
Speaker 2: They were sent to a concentration camp named Matausen in Austria.
Speaker 2: It looked like a stone fortress on a hill. It
Speaker 2: had been constructed carefully, not just to house Jews, but
Speaker 2: political prisoners, conscientious objectors, enemy soldiers from almost every country
Speaker 2: in German occupied Europe. It had some of the harshest
Speaker 2: conditions and one of the highest death rates of any
Speaker 2: of the Nazi camps. I don't need to tell you
Speaker 2: how bad concentration camps were. No food, no hope, hard
Speaker 2: labor guards who would shoot inmates for sport. The living
Speaker 2: and the dying crammed into the same putrid spaces. Tiber
Speaker 2: was just a terrified kid when he arrived at the camp.
Speaker 2: An SS officer told him none of you Jews will
Speaker 2: make it out of here alive.
Speaker 3: So many people died there every day, for so many people,
Speaker 3: mountain of people dead. They didn't even have time to
Speaker 3: burn them. You know, the life over. There was no future,
Speaker 3: nothing to look forward. Just then I gonna be next.
Speaker 2: But Tiber was smart and resourceful and learned the ways
Speaker 2: of the camp. One prisoner taught him to pick the
Speaker 2: lice off every single day so he wouldn't get typhus.
Speaker 2: When Tiber got sick from the rotted potatoes and dirty
Speaker 2: water they were feeding him, a man in his bunk
Speaker 2: made him eat charcoal to settle his stomach. The Polish
Speaker 2: guys he had traveled with showed him how to steal
Speaker 2: food from the officer's garbage dump. He thought of himself
Speaker 2: like a rat, cunning, quick and silent, doing whatever he
Speaker 2: could to survive.
Speaker 1: We rush an't no human beIN anymore.
Speaker 2: He tried not to make connections with other prisoners. Friendships
Speaker 2: felt dangerous. Other teenagers could be unruly and get them
Speaker 2: all into trouble. Plus the friends he made seemed inevitably
Speaker 2: to die, even in the crowded bunk rooms. He became
Speaker 2: more and more isolated alone. Then one evening, during roll call,
Speaker 2: he saw a familiar face across the prison yard. Tiber stared.
Speaker 2: He couldn't believe it. It was his brother, Emery. He
Speaker 2: pushed his way through the other prisoners to get to him.
Speaker 2: Emory and Tiber hugged. They held hands all through that
Speaker 2: role call. It seemed like a miracle. Tiber felt like
Speaker 2: he knew who he was again. A little bit of
Speaker 2: his humanity was restored. Emory had been caught in Czechoslovakia
Speaker 2: and had spent months doing forced hard labor. Then, without warning,
Speaker 2: he'd been loaded on a train to Matthausen. Emory was
Speaker 2: assigned to a different barracks than Tybor, and because he
Speaker 2: was a carpenter, he was often sent on construction projects
Speaker 2: outside Mathausen itself. The brothers rarely saw each other, but
Speaker 2: just knowing Emory was there reminded Tibor that he was loved,
Speaker 2: and that kept him going. The famous Viennese psychiatrist and
Speaker 2: Auschwitz survivor Victor Frankel would later write about this exact phenomenon.
Speaker 2: He said that those in the death camps who lost
Speaker 2: their faith in the future would die a kind of
Speaker 2: emotional death. The loss of hope would hasten the loss
Speaker 2: of the will to live. He wrote that it was
Speaker 2: quote possible to practice the art of living even in
Speaker 2: a concentration camp. Frankel believed that if we react to
Speaker 2: terrible circumstances with courage and kindness and unselfishness, then life
Speaker 2: can take on a deeper meaning, even in the face
Speaker 2: of inhumanity. Emory's arrival was at Beacon of Hope for Tibor.
Speaker 2: He held on to it and to the lesson. It
Speaker 2: taught him that faith in the future was powerful. Tiber
Speaker 2: was in Matthausen for more than a year, amidst the death,
Speaker 2: hatred and Squalor. Winter was viciously cold, and the prisoners
Speaker 2: were dressed in rags that didn't keep out the chill.
Speaker 2: They stood in the snow oh shivering while their captors
Speaker 2: did roll call. Everyone was starving. They would sleep squeeze
Speaker 2: next to each other like sardines. Often they would wake
Speaker 2: up next to someone who had died in the night.
Speaker 2: That's where Tiber turned fifteen. Time ground on, But then
Speaker 2: Tiber started to hear whispers, rumors spreading. The Germans were
Speaker 2: losing the war. The Allies were on the way, but
Speaker 2: Tiber wasn't sure what to believe. Until one day, in
Speaker 2: a palenteen forty five, the prisoners heard the drone of
Speaker 2: Allied plains overhead work at the camp ground to a halt.
Speaker 2: As first some then all of the Sas commands started
Speaker 2: to flee. They had tried to destroy evidence of what
Speaker 2: they had done, dismantling the installations for mass killing and
Speaker 2: burning incriminating documents. By May third, the German soldiers were gone.
Speaker 2: Two days later, the inmates heard the rattle of tanks.
Speaker 2: The Americans had arrived.
Speaker 3: One day, five tanks showed up that bregg down the gate.
Speaker 3: When we see the American troops in, everybody was crying
Speaker 3: the paper and the kids their feet.
Speaker 1: We called them the gi Josh.
Speaker 2: One of the soldiers who was there that day remembered
Speaker 2: what it was like to liberate the camp. His name
Speaker 2: was Charles Sandler. He was in the eleventh Armored Division
Speaker 2: of the US Army. Here he is talking about his
Speaker 2: experiences in an interview from the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 4: After picture, there huge monument. This was not just a shack.
Speaker 4: Mauthhausen Camp proper was like a huge castle on a
Speaker 4: high ground, a very permanent, but order concentration camp. I'd
Speaker 4: say it was a beautiful structure. As we approached, one
Speaker 4: of the strongest impressions, which I still very clearly recall,
Speaker 4: was that of the scentse What we smell was the
Speaker 4: smell of death, of bodies rotting, hundreds of bodies stacked
Speaker 4: like cord wood, bodies still in the crematoria.
Speaker 2: The prisoners at least those who were strong enough to
Speaker 2: stand greeted the army with.
Speaker 4: Elation, well with unmistakable just never to be forgotten joy
Speaker 4: and screaming and hollering, and the gates were open. After
Speaker 4: picture a situation of fifteen thousand souls that were just
Speaker 4: beyond description, starving, beaten, abused, and they just wanted to
Speaker 4: break out a captivity. I could have been elected anything
Speaker 4: that day I will never forget, and they're always grateful
Speaker 4: that I had that opportunity of performing that small service.
Speaker 2: What Tiber noticed about the American soldiers was that they
Speaker 2: were more than fighters. He couldn't believe how kind and
Speaker 2: compassion that they were. They gave life, they weren't just
Speaker 2: taking it away.
Speaker 3: The medic pick us up filthy stink. They have to
Speaker 3: wash us and clean us, and to take care of
Speaker 3: was unbelievable. This was something you'll never forget.
Speaker 2: Tiber and Emory were skin and bones days away from death,
Speaker 2: but the Reuben brothers were two of the lucky ones.
Speaker 2: At least ninety five thousand people had died in Mohausen.
Speaker 2: Tiber and Emory returned home to their tiny town in Hungary.
Speaker 2: Their sister Irene had survived as well, and she found
Speaker 2: them there. Of the one hundred and twenty Jewish families
Speaker 2: in their town, members of just three had returned. Among
Speaker 2: the missing were Tiber's parents and his little sister, who
Speaker 2: had been only ten. Eventually, Emory told Tiber the news
Speaker 2: all three of them had been murdered at Auschwitz. When
Speaker 2: they divided the prisoners who could work from the ones
Speaker 2: who would immediately be killed. Tiber's mother had insisted on
Speaker 2: accompanying his little sister to the gash chamber. She didn't
Speaker 2: want her to die alone. His mother's sacrifice the American
Speaker 2: gis both set Tiber on his life's course of holding
Speaker 2: fast to what makes us human, even when inhumanity surrounds us.
Speaker 2: Hungary was occupied by the Russians, and the Reuben's siblings
Speaker 2: got out of the country as fast as they possibly
Speaker 2: could before the borders closed. They made it to a
Speaker 2: camp for displaced persons that was run by the United
Speaker 2: Nations and the US Army. Tiber spent three years there
Speaker 2: before he finally got his wish permission to move to
Speaker 2: the United States. In neen forty eight, he boarded a
Speaker 2: boat to New York. As the ship entered the harbor,
Speaker 2: Tiber went to the deck to see the Manhattan skyline.
Speaker 2: He opened his suitcase, and in a grand gesture, he
Speaker 2: threw his clothes from the old Country overboard. He watched
Speaker 2: them flutter down into the water. He was going to
Speaker 2: start fresh. Hope had sustained him in Mahausen and in
Speaker 2: the camps as he waited to start this new life.
Speaker 2: Or other survivors of the war might have bitterness or regret,
Speaker 2: Tiber instead had an unflappable optimism, faith in the future,
Speaker 2: and grand plans for his new life in the United States.
Speaker 2: Once he was there, he was going to fulfill a
Speaker 2: vow he'd made the day the American soldiers liberated Mauthausen.
Speaker 3: I made the promise if Lord helped me, if I
Speaker 3: ever go to America, I'm going to become a Geigel.
Speaker 2: Fast forward a couple of years. Tiber was twenty. I'm
Speaker 2: going to take a second here to tell you what
Speaker 2: he looked like so you can get a mental picture.
Speaker 2: He wasn't a super tall guy. A puberty spent eating
Speaker 2: dirty scraps and moldy bread will mess with your growth spurt.
Speaker 2: But he looked like a movie star, like a young
Speaker 2: Marlon Branda. He had gotten a series of jobs once
Speaker 2: he settled in Manhattan. He worked at a garment factory
Speaker 2: and in a slaughterhouse briefly. Then he got hired in
Speaker 2: a fancy grocery store on Broadway. He couldn't really speak English,
Speaker 2: but he charmed the ladies and buying whatever he was selling.
Speaker 2: He was an outrageous flirt, and right around this time
Speaker 2: he changed his name to the very American Ted.
Speaker 1: So I was in heaven. It's Loise Elmetti.
Speaker 2: Ted hadn't forgotten about his vow to join the army.
Speaker 2: In fact, he kept trying to join, but he kept
Speaker 2: failing the admissions test. He tried in New York twice,
Speaker 2: and then in the fall of nineteen forty nine, Ted
Speaker 2: moved west, ever optimistic about finding more opportunity. He settled
Speaker 2: in Oakland, California, where he went to the Army recruitment
Speaker 2: office again, and there he finally passed the entrance exam
Speaker 2: on his third try. He might have had a little
Speaker 2: extra help, not saying he cheated, but he could talk
Speaker 2: his way into pretty much anything, even in his broken English.
Speaker 2: He qualified for a sharpshooter badge, and his unit was
Speaker 2: sent to Okinawa for training, and then war was declared
Speaker 2: in Korea. The troops got ready to ship out for combat,
Speaker 2: but the captain told Ted he couldn't go with them
Speaker 2: because he wasn't a US citizen yet he had to
Speaker 2: go to a safe zone instead.
Speaker 3: He says, Captain, I cannot go, and he save his
Speaker 3: own because I made the promise, and when I make
Speaker 3: a promise, I have to keep it. You say you
Speaker 3: are your mind. I say, yes, have to go because
Speaker 3: I owed him to. The soldiers liberated me, saved my life.
Speaker 3: I was going to Korea with the regiment and I did.
Speaker 2: So. Ted had asked willingly to be sent with his
Speaker 2: unit to a war zone, and once he arrived in Korea,
Speaker 2: he got way more than his fair share of danger.
Speaker 2: This was because of one guy. We're gonna call him
Speaker 2: Sgeant A. In interviews, Ted never wanted to give this
Speaker 2: guy's real name. It's there in his service records, but
Speaker 2: it was important to Ted that he never identified him.
Speaker 3: I don't mention any name, because you said this is
Speaker 3: the man is dead. He cannot hurt me anymore. So
Speaker 3: mentioned his name.
Speaker 2: I'm going to respect Ted's wishes. Just trust me that
Speaker 2: Sergeant A. Was a real person. Unfortunately, Sergeant A was
Speaker 2: a foul mouthed World War II that from Texas and
Speaker 2: an equal opportunity bigot. He hated the South Korean troops
Speaker 2: who were serving alongside the Americans. He hated black people, Mexicans, Italians,
Speaker 2: though fortunately for those folks none of them were assigned
Speaker 2: to his company, and Sergeant A really hated Jews. He
Speaker 2: couldn't believe that he had the bad luck to get
Speaker 2: Ted assigned to his unit.
Speaker 3: He said, no, the US would be coming here to
Speaker 3: fight a war. I said, well, you're looking one of
Speaker 3: them because I'm here, So you see that. To me, there,
Speaker 3: you are a stupid as saroma, bitch, fucking jew I
Speaker 3: ever met. All of a sudden, I say, I have
Speaker 3: to show to him, I'm gonna be as good as him.
Speaker 2: This is exactly five thousand of Ted's refusal to let
Speaker 2: hatred chip away at his essential faith in humanity. One day,
Speaker 2: his company was ordered to join a formation several miles
Speaker 2: to the south. The enemy was coming their way and
Speaker 2: they needed to move to a safer location. There was
Speaker 2: a problem. They had more AMMO than they could transport.
Speaker 2: They needed to travel to the next position get some
Speaker 2: trucks and drive back to pick it up. Sergeant A yelled,
Speaker 2: find me the Hungarian.
Speaker 3: And he said that we have a lot of ammunition
Speaker 3: and rappens and everything. You're gonna be a guard and
Speaker 3: if she if we're gonna come back and pick it up.
Speaker 2: Ted was being left behind alone on top of a ridge,
Speaker 2: a ridge that was the only thing standing between the
Speaker 2: approaching enemy and the US troops. He was supposed to
Speaker 2: wait there and guard a giant pile of weapons by himself.
Speaker 2: This was not a good situation. It was obvious to
Speaker 2: everyone a single man wouldn't be able to keep an
Speaker 2: enemy patrol from taking the ammunition or from advancing on
Speaker 2: the company's new position. But Ted couldn't and wouldn't say no,
Speaker 2: and Sergeant A promised they would be back to get
Speaker 2: him before dark. Then the company packed.
Speaker 1: Up and left.
Speaker 2: The hours ticked by, the shadows grew longer. Ted kept
Speaker 2: looking at his watch, kept waiting, hoping to hear the
Speaker 2: rattle of trucks. Then it was dark. By midnight, it
Speaker 2: was clear to Ted that the trucks weren't coming, and
Speaker 2: he realized an entire enemy company could get to the
Speaker 2: top of this ridge. In a matter of minutes, it
Speaker 2: will be dozens against just him. To anyone else, the
Speaker 2: situation would have seemed truly hopeless.
Speaker 1: Not Ted.
Speaker 2: He looked at the giant pile of ammunition and started
Speaker 2: squirreling grenades into the foxholes along the ridge.
Speaker 1: Then I have my m one rifle.
Speaker 3: I lowered them down, a few of them and put
Speaker 3: in some mamination.
Speaker 2: He gathered as much machine gun ammo as he could
Speaker 2: handle and place that in strategic positions too. He needed
Speaker 2: to trick the North Koreans into believing that there was
Speaker 2: more than one soldier on guard. Then he waited for
Speaker 2: the enemy to arrive. And arrived they did. The moon
Speaker 2: moved from behind a cloud, and Ted saw them a
Speaker 2: hundred or more North Korean soldiers silently scaling the hill.
Speaker 2: Then it was whistles and yells and the sound of
Speaker 2: a bugle. The onslaught had begun. Ted hurled grenades one
Speaker 2: after another as fast as he could pull the pins.
Speaker 2: Bone rattling blasts of motor shells came back at him.
Speaker 2: He crawled behind a machine gun and started firing into
Speaker 2: the darkness. Bullets zipped through the air in his direction.
Speaker 3: Then I should with my rifle. Then I should my
Speaker 3: carbine I throw, you'll become hysterica. I did it four
Speaker 3: and a half hours. I've been bananas.
Speaker 2: Four and a half hours, one man against one hundred. Finally,
Speaker 2: as dawn came, Ted heard the sound of American planes overhead.
Speaker 2: What was left of the enemy scattered. The battle was over.
Speaker 2: He was alive, but still nobody was coming for him,
Speaker 2: so he started walking. He was shell shocked, moving like
Speaker 2: a zombie down the dusty road. When he finally reached
Speaker 2: his company, he told Sergeant A what had happened. Sergeant
Speaker 2: A didn't believe him, but Ted insisted that they go
Speaker 2: back and look. He wanted proof for his commanding officers
Speaker 2: and for himself. What they found was a pile of bodies.
Speaker 2: The far side of the hill was carpeted with dead
Speaker 2: and dying North Korean soldiers. Ted was horrified. He cried
Speaker 2: in a way that he had never cried before, not
Speaker 2: even when Emory had told him about his parents and
Speaker 2: his little sister.
Speaker 1: Then I have a guilt feeling what I did here.
Speaker 3: You know, I kill even the enemy, but I killed
Speaker 3: somebody's father brought there and all that, you know.
Speaker 2: But here's the irony right. He had become a soldier
Speaker 2: to save lives. His first reaction wasn't relief at having
Speaker 2: survived an unsurvivable situation. It was to see the terrible costs.
Speaker 2: Ted knew what war was, what soldiers did. He knew
Speaker 2: that they weren't just the life giving g I Joes
Speaker 2: who had saved him from death in Mohausen. They killed people,
Speaker 2: sometimes in a way that felt needless cruel. Up until
Speaker 2: this moment, Ted had convinced himself that he could get
Speaker 2: through the war with his moral code intact. Now he
Speaker 2: had to face what it actually meant to be a soldier,
Speaker 2: and he had to figure out a way to balance
Speaker 2: the scales. How he did would change not only Ted's life,
Speaker 2: but the lives of dozens of others. The Extraordinary Story
Speaker 2: of Ted Rubin continues next week on Medal of Honor,
Speaker 2: Stories of Courage. Medal of Honor Stories of Courage is
Speaker 2: written by Meredith Rollins and produced by Meredith Rollins, Constanza Gallardo,
Speaker 2: and Izzy Carter. The show is edited by Ben Daph Haffrey,
Speaker 2: sound design and additional music by Jake Gorski, recording engineering
Speaker 2: by Nita Lawrence, fact checking by Arthur Gombert's original music
Speaker 2: by Eric Phillips. Special thanks to the Congressional Medal of
Speaker 2: Honor Society and the Buffalo Jewish Federation. If you want
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