Authors: Alan Levy
US Holocaust Memorial Council
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US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
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US Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI)
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US Senators’ Free Wallenberg Committee
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US War Crimes Office
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Ustashi (Yugoslavia)
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Vak, Dr Karl
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Varon, Benno Weiser
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Verdross-Drossberg, Dr Alfred
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Verkhneural’sk labour camp, Siberia
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Verschuer, Professor Otmar von
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Vienna
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Wiesenthal’s Documentation Centre
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Eichmann in
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Pier/Friedman Documentation Centre
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Waldheim’s law studies at University of
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Waldheim’s marriage in (1944)
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designated third UN City (1979)
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Villach Castle, library of Jewish religious books in
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Vladimir Prison
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Vorkuta labour camp, Siberia
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Vranitzky, Franz
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Wächter, Otto
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Waffen
SS
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Wagner, Gustav
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Waldheim, Elisabeth (
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Ritschel: ‘Cissy’)
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Kurt’s engagement and marriage to
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Waldheim, Gerhard
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Waldheim, Kurt
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Who’s Who in Austria
entry for 1972
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In the Eye of the Storm
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The Challenge of Peace
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military service on Russian front
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law studies at Vienna University
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military service in Yugoslavia
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military service in Greece
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incriminating photo with SS General at Podgorica
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White Book of
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marriage to Elisabeth (1944)
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return to post-war Vienna
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diplomat with Austrian Foreign Service
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denazification of
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Yugoslav indictment of
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appointed First Secretary in Paris
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Ambassador to UN
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1971 Presidential election lost by
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Tito’s friendship with
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Foreign Minister (1968)
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Secretary-General of UN (1971–82)
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President of Austria (1986–92)
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visit to Israel (1973)
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WJC campaign against
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Kirschläger evaluates evidence for and against
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placed on Watch List (1987)
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1988 report of the historians’ commission
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Wiesenthal and Kreisky call for resignation of
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letter to Wiesenthal from (February 1989)
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Waldheim, Liselotte
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Walesa, Lech
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Wallenberg Action Committee
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Wallenberg, Marcus
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Wallenberg, Raoul Gustav Jnr
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birth and youth in Sweden
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studies architecture at Ann Arbor (USA)
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works in South Africa
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Budapest Jewish rescue operation
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Eichmann’s meetings with
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Soviet arrest (1945) and imprisonment of
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nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
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made honorary citizen of USA
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Stockholm hearing (1981)
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Waltke, Master Sergeant Oskar
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Wannsee, Final Solution Conference at (1942)
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War Refugee Board (WRB), US
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Warnstorff, Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert
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Warsaw
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Cyla’s flat at 5 Topiel Street
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Warsaw Ghetto
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1943 uprising
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non-Jewish uprising (1944)
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Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization
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Warzok, Friedrich
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Wehrmacht Archive
(WASt)
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Werbell, Frederick and Clarke, Thurston,
Lost Hero
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West Bosnian Combat Group
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West Germany
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Stangl’s extradition from Brazil to (1967)
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Nuremberg trials
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reparations to Jews
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Düsseldorf trials
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Hermine Braunsteiner’s extradition from USA to (1973)
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Western Ukrainian Republic
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‘The White Book’ (
Kurt Waldheim’s Wartime Years: A Documentation
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Wiernik, Yankel,
One Year in Treblinka
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Wiesel, Elie
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Wiesenthal, Asher
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Wiesenthal, Cyla (
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Müller, Simon’s wife)
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Simon’s marriage to (1936)
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imprisoned in Janowsk
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camp
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escapes from Janowsk
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to Warsaw
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post-war return to Lwów
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and reunion with Simon
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Wiesenthal, Pauline Rosa (daughter)
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Wiesenthal, Rosa (Simon’s mother)
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death of husband
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remarries and moves to Dolina
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moved to ghetto in Lemberg
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deported from Lemberg and perishes in Belzec (1942)
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Wiesenthal, Simon xi–xii,
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nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
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threats and plots against
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his research on Columbus
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birth (1908) and childhood in Buczacz
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attends Humanistic Gymnasium
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meets Cyla Müller
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at Prague Technical University
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apprenticed as building engineer in Russia (1934–5)
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studies at Lwów Technical University
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marriage to Cyla (1936)
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Honorary Doctorate of Architecture from Vienna University (1990)
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licensed as architectural engineer (1940)
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in Lemberg during Nazi occupation
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imprisoned in Janowsk
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dying SS soldier denied absolution by
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escapes from Janowsk
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caught and taken to Gestapo prison
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attempted suicides of
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and SS Construction Staff Venus
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at Plaszow concentration camp
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and Buchenwald
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and Mauthausen
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post-war work for US War Crimes Office, Linz
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Vice-Chairman of Jewish Committee
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Cyla’s reunion with
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works for OSS
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birth of daughter, Pauline Rosa
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opens Jewish Documentation Centre, Linz
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and Eichmann
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closes Documentation Centre
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refugee work and freelance journalism
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