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Charity girl

by Michael Lowenthal

Government policySexually transmitted diseasesQuarantineFictionPatientsPrevention & controlHistoryPopular Works

During World War I, after an impulsive night with an infected soldier, Frieda Mintz, a seventeen-year-old Jewish girl, is sent to a makeshift detention center for medical treatment with other "charity girls" in similar circumstances.

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Book data: Open Library