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Jews
Jews
"The enemy trapped the Jews in the city by building a wall around it. Foodstuffs
could not be brought in: starvation and crowded conditions gave rise to disease,
and epidemics spread among the populace. But surprisingly the Jews held on.
Then the enemy massed troops outside the wall and brought out the latest in
weaponry. They attacked, using fire to spread destruction. The Jews repelled the
enemy a number of times. So savage was the resistance that the campaign to
destroy the Jewish population took much longer and cost more troops than
anticipated. Street by street the fighting raged with hand-to-hand combat
between the heavily armed troops
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