Holocaust survivor Welles who hunted Nazis dead at 79

Monday, December 4, 2006

NEW YORK -- Elliot Welles, a Holocaust survivor who found the officer who ordered his mother's death and turned that personal triumph into a relentless crusade to track down fugitive Nazis, has died. He was 79.

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