8 Friday, February 18, 1977
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Latvian Who Denied Nazi Role Facing Deportation Charges
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YESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAH
ALBANY, N.Y. (JTA) on Hazners in the news-
— Vilis A. Hazners, 71, a paper Last November.
nationally prominent
Hazners, who lives in
Lativian emigre, denied Dresden, N.Y., is presi-
in a U.S. Immigration and dent of the Committee for
Naturalization service a Free Latvia and made
court in Albany Monday broadcasts for the Voice
that he committed war of America in the 1960's,
crimes while an officer in Dicker told the JTA. He is
the Nazi-backed Lativian charged with entering
SS legion during World the U.S. from Germany in
War II.
1956 in Violation of the
Hazners, who is facing anti-war crimes provi-
deportation procedings, sion of the refugee relief
has been accused of re- act of 1953. He was served
sponsbility for the deaths with a deportation notice
of an estimated several on Jan. 28.
Dicker, in his investiga-
hundred to 1,000 Jews in
Riga, Lativia, in July, tive report last November,
1941, The Jewish Tele- wrote that the accusations
graphic Agency was in- against Hazners came
formed by Fredric U. from official present-day
Dicker, a reporter for the Lativian publications and
Albany Times-Union, from Dr. Gertrude
who first wrote an expose Schneider, a City Univer-
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sity of New York Profes-
sor, Lativian history scho-
lar, survivor of the Riga
ghetto` and a naturalized
U.S. citizen.
During a visit to Lativa
in 1971, Schneider, who
had been deported from
her native Austria to
Latvia by the Nazis at the
beginning of World War
II, recalled a discussion
with the Lativian culture
minister in which he
spoke of alleged atrocities
committed during the
war by persons now living
in the U.S. and mentioned
Hazners, among others,
Dicker reported
Schneider told him dur-
ing an interview last
November.
attorney,
Hazners'
Ivars Berzins of Babylon,
L.I.; declared in court
that the charges against
his client had -"made •in
Moscow stamped all over
them." Lloyd Sherman,
the INS attorney who
presented the case, said
the government was pre-
pared "to bring four to
five witnesses from over-
seas" to testify against
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VIENNA (JTA) —
Simon Wiesenthal, head
of the Jewish Documen-
tation - Center, announced
that he has tracked down
another Nazi war crimi-
nal. Wiesenthal said he
discovered a former Ger-
man SS officer who com-
mitted war crimes in oc-
cupied Yugoslavia during
World War II.
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Druschke, 62, who is now
a tavern keeper in
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the shooting of 45 hos-
tages in 1942 when he was
head of the Gestapo police
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Hazners. Most of the wit-
nesses, survivors of the
Riga ghetto, are believed
to be living in Israel.
The deportation notice
states that Hazners par-
ticipated "in the collection
of a group of Jews in Riga,
Latvia, and detaining them
in the big synagogue
(Choral Synagogue) on
Gogol St., Riga, after
which said synagogue was
set afire and the detained
Jews burned to death the-
rein."
Hazners is also accused
of helping select Jews for
execution in Latvia.
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
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a grove named in honor of
the Argentine heroine,
Mariqueita. Sanchez de
Thompson. It is in the In-
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Forest in Galilee.
De Thompson ran a
literary and political
salon at her home at the
beginning of the 19th
Century, and it was there
that preparations were
made to help aid the inde-
pendence revolution of
Argentina. The grove was
planted at the request of
the Women's Zionist Or-
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The ceremony was at-
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headed by Mrs. Catalina
Epstein; and a group of
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