The World - News from Nov. 6, 1986
Officials of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies have turned over to Venezuelan authorities in Miami the names of three suspected Nazi war criminals believed to be living in the South American country. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Los Angeles-based center, said one was a member of a Lithuanian murder squad, another is also accused of involvement in the murder of Jews in Lithuania and the third worked for an anti-Semitic newspaper in Latvia. The center has promised to identify within the next six months up to 5,000 suspected Nazi war criminals.
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