Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 26, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 14 Winnipeg free january Mackay declares refusal to Harbor War criminals Ottawa up the conserva Tive government will not protect or Harbor nazi War criminals in this solicitor general Elmer Mackay said he told reporters he doubts any government deliberately allowed War criminals to enter even if they gave the allies intelligence information at the end of the second world the minister said the government and ramp Are con ducting an exhaustive review of old files to determine whether any nazi War criminals came to Canada and whether any the Toronto quoting unnamed High placed says the Federal government provided Sanctuary for suspected nazi War criminals and is continuing to protect their identity because they provided intelligence information to the United states and Britain after the the previous Liberal government said the ramp was investigating about 100 cases of suspected War world criminals to determine whether they were living in Canada and could be extradited to Europe for the Simon Wiesenthal a los Angele based nazi Hunting estimates at least nazi War criminals and collaborators came to jewish groups and nazi Hunters have Long suspected Many War criminals were granted Refuge in Canada in Exchange for providing inform because it was easier legally and politically to get them into this country than into the United states or if there harboured they Haven been harboured certainly not by us and i doubt by any other Mackay this government is not going to protect any nazis or any other types of War Mackay conceded that in the immediate postwar As Canada was adjusting to new relationships with former enemies and accommodating an influx of Immi there May have been peo ple slipped in prime minister Mulroney ordered Mackay and Justice minister John Crosbie earlier this week to conduct an urgent investigation into old files to determine whether War criminals came to Mackay said the investigation is very to the extent that this want done by the former government and it appears that it want Well do it and Well do it he two years nazi War criminal Helmut Cauca was extradited from Canada to West Germany but died in prison before coming to it was the first such extradition from the order came after Mulroney received information that Josef who sent hundreds of thou Sands to their deaths at Ausch Witz concentration applied for a visa to enter Canada in chief physician at the most infamous nazi death arrested former agent declares Mackay Well do it was known As the Angel of death because a wave of his White loved hand was All it took to determine whether train loads of people arriving at the polish Camp were sent to forced labor or the Gas Mackay made no commitment to release a document prepared by the ramp analysing government Immi Gration policies since the jewish survivor fears holocaust will be forgotten by Bain Gair holocaust survivor Michael Hirsh fears the second world War atrocity will be forgotten and that it will happen anybody who does not believe it i will take that person Over myself to see the the polish born Hirsh said they Are still there is one he the unbeliever has to stay in Auschwitz for 24 hours this week Marks the Fortieth anniversary of the liberation of nazi Germany concentration Camp Hirsh and Many others bore incredible while millions More were we jews claim six million were he i claim 25 or 30 million ukrainians died Many grew up in a polish Border town near in what is now the soviet and spent about five years in nazi he now runs a sportswear business in we were a Community of in he there were 48 barbed wire Hirsh recalls the Day the germans imprisoned him in i was working on a they just circled us together by 75 or 80 and put us in the Back of three Small they took us from there to the Camp consisted of four Barracks wired with barbed wire and other kinds of there was a police station at the front of the Camp and a Gallows at the sixty five members of his family were killed in the when they killed my father and me and my brother ran into the they gathered up All the people and shot four thousand of them in three Hirsh lived in forced labor not concentration there were no crematoriums in he but people Hirsh saw and experienced atrocities that defy he told of blood being drained from children and a barrage of mass Mur Der and what Hirsh fears most now is that Mankind will forget the lessons of the what really frightens me is that there Are Only 30or of us survivors he we Are already senior a younger child had no Chance to it is important that we nazi survivor describes killing Toronto up prisoners at Gusen concentration Camp in nazi occupied Poland called the Road to a nearby stonework Golgotha Way because every step was soaked with human a Camp survivor testified Chester Tomaszewski told the trial of Ernst Zundel that a prisoner could be killed on Golgotha Way because he didst run fast because the Rock he was carrying was considered too Small or because nazi guards in a foul mood decided to shoot a the original known in the English Bible As was the place near Jerusalem where Jesus Christ was said to have been crucified after being forced to carry his own Cross to the execution let me Tell the victims of that Road who lost their lives first were the Tomas a polish emotional testimony testimony by an emotional and fragile Tomas who occasionally brushed away was in marked contrast to the crackling combativeness in the today Cross examination of the previous Rudolf has pleaded not guilty to two charges of knowingly publishing false information that caused or was Likely to cause harm to racial or social the charges from two pamphlets published by one entitled did six million really saying the proportions of the Holo Caust were greatly and another arguing the existence of an International conspiracy of secret societies and Tomaszewski said that in at the age of he was hauled off to Gusen after watching nazis kill his the greeted new arrivals with the words this is an extermination five years his Sandy hair shocked permanently he emerged with a Host of memories which choked him up moments after he mounted the wit newsstand after being liberated by the to Maszewski said he didst want to return to Poland because his parents and most of his five Brothers were dead new York up the head of a counterintelligence unit stationed in Germany after the second world War said yesterday he has no doubt nazi War criminal Josef Mengele was arrested by american forces in 1947 and later in a statement released in new York by los Angele based Simon Wiesenthal retired agent Benjamin who now lives in said there is no doubt that his source of information on the Mengele arrest was fully Pentagon officials denied thurs Day that who ran the Auschwitz concentration Camp where about four million Are believed to have had been arrested by soldiers in occupied aus Trian territory after the the los Angele based Wiesenthal Centre Gorby in Israel through another former counterintelligence William Gorby had been Active in the zionist youth movement in Czechoslovakia and Germany before the the Centre in his Gorby said that after 38 years he cannot remember the name of the source who told him of Mengeler arrest in but i am fully certain of its the statement stationed in at the wrote a memo to officials in Vienna about the the declassified memo was released by the Weisenthal had i not considered it weighty in my i would not have sent out such a memo to another detachment located in another nor would i have sought and obtained permission to do so by my com manding he Gorby speculated that in the scope of Mengeler crimes were pos Sibly not yet fully Mengele held the relatively Low rank of Cap Tain in the nazi but because of the horror stories about Auschwitz reaching him from some of the Camps polish Gorby passed on information he received from a reliable agent which described the Man As chief 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