{"id":6852,"date":"2022-08-14T18:56:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T01:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/?p=6852"},"modified":"2024-07-20T15:59:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T22:59:55","slug":"the-face-of-my-grandparents-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/the-face-of-my-grandparents-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, I’ve Seen the Face of My Grandparents Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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She knew his last name\u2014Arlt. And his rank in the Waffen SS\u2014Unterscharf\u00fchrer\u2014equivalent to that of a sergeant. She knew he had been stationed in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. But she was haunted by missing details.<\/p>\n

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Claudia\u2019s search started nearly 30 years ago when she discovered that three of her grandparents were Jewish and that two of them (her father\u2019s parents, Rudolf and Regine Wiener) had been murdered in the Holocaust. Out of this experience, Claudia wrote\u00a0Letter from Vienna<\/em>:<\/em>\u00a0a daughter discovers her family\u2019s Jewish past<\/em>.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0But while she learned much about her grandparents, questions about Arlt remained unanswered.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The mystery was unresolved until recently, when a thick packet arrived at her home in North Vancouver from the Federal Archives in Berlin. In the packet\u2014a picture of Gerhardt Arlt, 30 years old, 176 centimeters tall, standing in a forest, wearing polished boots and a uniform with the SS lightning bolt insignia on his right collar.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Here is Claudia Cornwall, reading the story of her discovery:<\/p>\n

Finally I\u2019ve Seen the Face of My Grandparents\u2019 Killer<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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