Secret WWII Resistance Photo Album Found Beneath Apartment Floorboards

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A collection of old, yellowed photographs and documents, including a black-and-white portrait of a man with a serious expression, arranged on a table, showing signs of age and water damage.

A secret cache of World War II photographs of the resistance has been found beneath the floorboards of an apartment, where the album had been concealed in Nazi-occupied Poland.

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