Helene Thiesen was one of 22 Inuiit children separated from their families in Greenland 70 years ago.
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Seven-year-old Helene Thiesen peered out from aboard the passenger ship MS Disko, knowing she was setting sail from Greenland to a place called Denmark. What she could not understand is why her mother had chosen to send her away on that unhappy day in 1951.
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