EUROPE: Two Mothers

Three U.S. judges at Frankfurt had to make a decision that would have taxed Solomon.

The case began on New Year's Day 1941, when a baby boy was born to Ivan and Pavla Pirecnik in the village of Sostanj in Yugoslavia. The Pirecniks named the boy after his father. Two years later, the Germans shot down Ivan Pirecnik for working with the partisans; they sent his wife to Auschwitz concentration camp, and little Ivan to a German orphanage maintained by Hitler's SS.

Later that year, an SS man named Gustav Sirsch and his wife entered...

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