The Canadian Jewish Congress is calling on Canada to deport a man convicted in Italy for war crimes while he worked as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp. Michael Seifert, 76, was convicted in absentia of killing, raping and torturing prisoners at a northern Italy camp in 1944 and 1945.
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