Events and documents of year 1960
Documenting antisemitism and neo-Nazism after WW2
III.1.6.21
Letter from Simon Wiesenthal to the “Aktion gegen den Antisemitismus in Österreich” (Vienna), regarding the fight against anti-Semitism, and the situation in Egypt (no extradition, protection of war criminals, neo-Nazi meeting in Cairo). Attached list of war criminals residing in Egypt (among others: Leopold Gleim, Oskar Dirlewanger, and Bernard Bender), dated 15 April, 1960
Connections with other survivor organisations
III.1.6.39
Correspondence between SW and Zachariah Shuster from the American Jewish Committee (Paris, France), concerning the International Auschwitz Committee, its development into a power plant of communist propaganda and establishment of a new, impartial Auschwitz Committee, from 4 October, 1960 to 7 October, 1960
III.1.6.254
Letter from Isaac Schneersohn, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris, France) to Simon Wiesenthal, inviting him to give a lecture in Paris on war criminals, and proposing to travel to Poland to collect materials for the exhibition on the Warsaw Ghetto, dated 11 July, 1960
III.1.6.285
Correspondence between Simon Wiesenthal and H.G. van Dam (Central Council of Jews in Germany, Düsseldorf, FRG), concerning Wiesenthal’s request to establish contact with Otto Frank (father of Anne Frank), since he believes to know where the man who arrested the Frank family is, as well as information from the Central Council to Wiesenthal concerning the ban on the kosher slaughter, and information from SW concerning the danger that since the transfer to Warsaw (Poland) the International Auschwitz Committee could become a tool of communist propaganda, and his proposal to found a new Auschwitz Committee (in Vienna, Austria), from 18 July, 1960 to 4 October, 1960
Holocaust remembrance
“Nazi hunt”
III.1.6.201
Letter from Hermann Langbein, Secretary General of the International Auschwitz Committee in Austria (Vienna) to Freiherr v. Schowingen Schabinger (Freiburg, FRG), regarding investigation proceedings against Josef Mengele as well as his family members in Argentina, dated 9 September, 1960