The Dutch Auschwitz Committee sent an appeal today to Dr. Joseph Cals, the Dutch Prime Minister, to take immediate action to extradite Erich Rajakowitch from Austria. The former key aide to Nazi Adolf Eichmann was arrested and tried in connection with the deportation of 100,000 Dutch Jews during the German occupation. He was released from a Vienna jail last Sunday after serving three years there.
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