Dokumentationszentrum Des bundes Judischer Verfolgter des Naziregimes

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Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)

Creator

Wiesenthal, Simon

Dates

January 31, 1978 (indexed as 1978)

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item

Extent

Booklet : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, black, blue, red ; Ht: 29,5 cm x W: 20,5 cm

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Three pages, double-sided printing, compiled into a booklet of twelve pages in length, crease horizontally and vertically, includes Austrian airmail envelope. This 1978 annual report describes Simon Wiesenthal Center’s pursuit of Nazi war criminals. Printed for the purpose of spreading awareness of current Nazi and Nazi criminal's activity with the goal that these periodicals will inform the public and invite further leads as to the location of other Nazi criminals who have not stood trial for their crimes. Narrative: Rev. Isodore Lorincz was born 6 January 1908 in Hungary. His parents were Lowi Netti and Loliner (?) Jakob. He attended high school and Yeshiva, and graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary of Budapest with ordination and smicha. During World War 2 his family was killed in Auschwitz. He came to Canada in 1957 after fleeing the revolution in Hungary. He served in two congregations before serving the Shaare Zedek Congregation as ritual director, then as Chazzan Sheni with a congregation in Hamilton, Ontario, for three years. Afterwards he served as rabbi in Port Colborne, Ontario. He settled in Montreal, Quebec, in 1962 where he became Chazzan Sheni for the next 26 years. He and his wife, Zita, continued to live in Montreal until there death around 2005.

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DOKUMENTATIONSZENTRUMDES BUNDES JÜDISCHER VERFOLGTER DES NAZIREGIMES1010 WIEN I, SALZTORGASSE 6/4/II/5 – TELEFON 63 9 31, 63 98 05Vienna, January 31, 1978Dear Friends of the Documentation Center,BULLETIN OF INFORMATION NO. 181. NAZI CRIMES IN JESENICE AND BEGUNJE (YUGOSLAVIA)2. NAZI CRIMES IN RIGA – EDUARD ROSCHMANN1010 WIEN I, SALTZORGASSE 6/4/II/5BULLETIN OF INFORMATION NO. 16Following is our annual report on activities in 1977Since February 1973 we have been looking for the former Gestapo-Chief of Jesenice, Clement Druschke, whom witnesses accuse to have committed crimes in Jesenice and Begunje.The Central War Crimes Prosecutor's Office in Ludwigsburg, West Germany, was unable to find anything about Druschke in the documents it had about Jesenice. Likewise unknown was Druschke's current address. It took three years to find reliable witnesses; their testimonies, together with documents found in the town museum of Jesenice, have given us now a clearer picture of the activities of Druschke and his associates. But still, by the beginning of 1977, the authorities had no trace of Druschke.Therefore we had to look for him ourselves, in West Germany. We finally found him in Heidelberg, where he owns a restaurant. Immediately we sent a witness to Heidelberg, who had been tortured by Druschke personally, and who therefore knew him all too well. The witness had no difficulty picking Druschke out of a line-up arranged by the local authorities.We also gave the prosecutor in Heidelberg a list with the names and adresses of witnesses who personally had been victims of Druschke. They accuse him of arranging the deportation of more than 200 Slovenes to concentration camps in Germany. Only a handful survived. Together with his deputies Filip Zwick and Heinz Lincke, he selected 45 people from the village of Hrusica. Of this crime, his subordinates made photographs, which were found after the war.Druschke vanished from Yugoslavia after the collapse of the Third Reich. The Documentation Center has given evidence against Austrian accomplices of Druschke to the Prosecutor's Office in Vienna. We also found that Druschke's deputy Filip Zwick committed suicide after the war in the Austrian province of Carinthia.At the moment, about 80 witnesses against Druschke are being questioned by the authorities in Yugoslavia.It took thirty years for death to close this file.Read automatically; may contain mistakes.

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English

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