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Richard Sonnenfeldt, helped prosecute Nazis, dies at 86

Richard W. Sonnenfeldt, a Holocaust survivor, died on

Photo credit: Karen Wiles Stabile | Richard W. Sonnenfeldt, a Holocaust survivor, died on Friday of complications from a stroke. He was 86. (May 23, 2007)

Richard Sonnenfeldt, a Port Washington engineer who went from being persecuted as a young German Jew during World War II to interrogating those same persecutors as chief interpreter at the Nuremburg war crimes trials, died on Friday of complications from a stroke. He was 86.

For years, Sonnenfeldt kept silent about his remarkable early life, until prompted by questions from a granddaughter...

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