And if I had to start my career again, I would do the same things.

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Treblinka became real, the shift from myth to reality took place in a blinding flash, the encounter between a name and a place wiped out everything I had learned, forced me to start again from scratch.

NEWYORKER: Witness

"I had no money to start traveling again, and Kazakhstan came at a time when they were supporting me and still saw a lot of potential in me, so I took the chance, " Karatantcheva said.

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