- Elliot Welles
Elliot Welles (
18 September 1927 ,Vienna, Austria —28 November 2006 ,Bronx, New York , USA) whose original name was Kurt Sauerquell was aHolocaust survivor who for more than two decades until his retirement in 2003, directed theB'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League 's task force onNazi war criminals .Welles was known in particular for his work on the case of
Boleslav Maikovskis , who had been charged with ordering the arrests that led to the mass execution of 200 Latvian villagers during the war. A native ofLatvia , Maikovskis was sentenced to death "in absentia " by a Soviet court in 1965. He continued to live quietly inMineola, New York , where he had settled after the war, before fleeing to Germany in 1987.In large part because of Welles' persistence, Maikovskis, then 86, was put on trial in Germany in 1990. The trial was suspended in 1994 because of Maikovskis' failing health. Maikovskis died two years later.
External links
* [http://www.presstelegram.com/passages/ci_4763382 Obituary: Holocaust survivor dies] (Link dead as of 22:14,
14 January 2007 (UTC))
* [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061203/ap_on_re_us/obit_welles Yahoo News Nazi hunter Elliot Welles, 79, dies] (Link dead as of 21:20,14 January 2007 (UTC))
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