Simon Wiesenthal, director of the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna, told the press here that he had the names of 15 persons in Canada wanted for Nazi war crimes. However, he declined to reveal their names.
"I cannot name them," he said, because I am working on these cases through the official channels. "He said he had given some of the names to the Canadian Embassy in Vienna. In the case of five of the individuals, he said he had documents showing their involvement in the crimes. Most of these he said were Latvians who had helped the Nazi regime, he said.
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