Final Evidence and Deportation of Trifa

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In nineteen fifty, origin. A Romanian immigrant, Verl Trfer came to the United States to start a new life Trriifer told United States immmigration officials that he was a victim of the Nazis during the war. He said that when he left his native Romania, he was taken prisoner by the German Gestapo He said he was held at the Dakao concentration camp and was lucky to escape with his life. After the war, he said he struggled to survive. and then, like hundreds of thousands of refugees came to America under the Displaced Persons Act. The Displaced Persons Act was a statute enacted by the US Congress and signed by the presresident in nineteen forty eight that had the noble purpose of rescuing victims of persecution in Europe who were languishing in the so called DP camps and resettling them in the United States, where life would be better. This is a copy of one of the forms TRIFA filled out for entry into this country In this official account of his treatment by the Germans He says he was a political prisoner held by the Gestapo In nineteen fifty seven Triifa was granted US citizenship Trifa had strong ties to the Romanian Orthodox Church, and after coming to the United States, he was ordained a priest. quickly rose up through the church ranks. Tifa became Achbishop of the Diocese of Detroit The religious name Valerian And soon A cloud of suspicion and controversy surrounded Archbishop Trifa Some of the Romanian immigrants in his church thought they recognized Trifa from their years in Romania They said that a man named Trfa had been an ardent follower of Adolf Hitler during the war. And the Triffa was a leader of the Iron Guard, a pro Nazi group in Romania. The Iron Guard was the largest of the fascist movements in Romania. It was, u Violent It was anti Semitic. It was the equivalent of the Nazi movement in Romania This picture shows an Iron Guard rally during the early years of World War two. The similarities to Nazism, the salute, the uniforms are clearly evident. And like the Nazis, the Iron Guard was also antis Semitic. And like Hitler, the Iron Guard encouraged violence against the Jews and against others they perceived as enemies. Archbishop Trifa adamantly denied he had ever been a member of the Iron Guard. If the charge was true, it meant Trifa had lied to U. S. immigration officials. And it also meant that a high profile religious leader in the United States was in fact A Nazi war criminal What if a marginal gain? unlocked greater performance What if an insight in data could change everything At ArAMco, our focus on detail helps us deliver reliable energy to millions across the world Because margins aren't marginal, they're where we can truly push the limits of what's possible. 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Perhaps the most horrifying single episode of the Pgrum was the quote unquote, kosher butchering Last Wednesday night of more than two hundred Jews in the municipal slaughterhouse The Jews who had been rounded up after several hours of iron guard raids were put into several trucks and carried off to the slaughterhouse They' the green shirts, he means the iron gardists force them to undress and led them to the chopping blocks where they cut their throats in a horrible parody of the traditional Jewish methods of slaughtering fowl and livestock Romanian immigrants told U. S. authorities that Vierl Trifa was also the editor of the Iron Gard newspaper, Libertatia which also called for violence against Jews Trifa's role as far as the Pgram was concerned was one of a propagandist, one of an advocate of anti Semitic hatred one of an insiter whose writings created an atmosphere in which this kind of violence not only became permissible and acceptable, but encouraged The US government now faced a dilemma Was there any way of finding out whether Archbishop Trifa was a past member of the Iron Guard The only apparent evidence against Trifa was the decades old memories of his fellow Romanian immigrants All of these cases were and are Aong the most challenging ones that anyone in law enforcement could ever imagine confronting All of these cases involve crimes that took place Long ago, decades earlier. It's difficult enough to prove a mugging that took place yesterday. But one Romanian refugee, a New York dentist named Charles Kramer refused to let the case die Tramer's relatives were among the Jews killed at the hands of Romania's iron guard. He vowed to bring Archbishop Trriifa to justice For twenty years, he petitioned the US government to examine the case. In nineteen seventy three Department of Justice officially opened an investigation into whether Archbishop Trifa had played a role in murdering Jews during World War two U.S. prosecutors approached the West German government for assistance The Germans kept meticulous records during the war. And in their archives, investigators found twenty two postcards written by a man named Trifer. who had been a member the iron guard Whoever wrote the postcards was no concentration camp survivor The writer was a guest of the Nazi government. and spent the war years in relative comfort They essentially describe what he's doing during the day If you've seen a movie, what the weather's like Very normal, mundane type of stuff that an individual Peace without much fear of his life might write to his comrades while on a vacation Cards were signed by Verl Triifa. If they were written by the man known in the United States as Archbishop Valerian Trifa The Achbishop had lied to immigration officials Forensic scientists look for some way to prove that Archbishop Valerian Triifa had written these postcards For decades, rumors circulated that Archbishop Valerian Trifa high ranking religious figure in the Romanian Orthodox Church in the United States was once a member of Romania's Iiron Guard pro Nazi group that encouraged the murder of hundreds of Jews during World War two Archbishop Trford denied he was a member But when US. government officials found twenty two postcards allegedly written by TriFa from Germany during the war. They asked document examiner Gideon Epstein to conduct a handwriting analysis No two people have ever been found to have the same handwriting Twins, not identical twins. Handwriting is composed of motor, muscular, and nervous movements of the body all working together and it becomes bitual and unique an individual almost from the point of time when people start to write Fstein spent months comparing signatures on the postgards with samples of Archbishop Trifa's known signatures, like this one from an official church document The whole forensic concept is that you're comparing something that's disputed against something that's known And handwriting is basically the same thing. We have usually a document or a writing that's disputed And then we have writings that are known. And the question is, did the person who make the known make the disputed? Epstein noticed The writings in all cases were done with extreme speed, or what is called fluency So called fluent writers have wide variations in how they write Those variations are almost always the same, no matter how often they're repeated But to try to simulate or copy the style of a writer that has a great deal of variation and to be able to simulate that variation the same speed and the rhythm and fluency with all of the unconscious habits that the writer has It's an impossibility After months of analysis Gideon Epstein reached his conclusion was no doubt Writer of the German postcards. wasas Valerian Tifa This was proof that Triifa lied to immigration authorities, but he vowed to fight any deportation Prosecutors were concerned their only solid evidence was the handwriting analysis and eyewitness identifications that were more than thirty years old Looking at a blow up photo of one of the postgards, investigators saw what they thought be a clue The card had only a return address apparently just an update on where the writer was living. On a large blank space investigators saw what they thought might be Fingerprint They petitioned the West German government for the actual postgard and were denied The West Germans did not want the postcard damaged And in the nineteen seventies, the powders used to detect fingerprints would have permanently altered the card case stalled for years I believe that the immigration serervice the case was just too difficult they couldn't handle it What brought the case back to life? was a new piece of forensic technology The laser In the nineteen seventies, researchers discovered that laser beams react with the oils that form fingerprints, causing the prints literally to glow or lumines The procedure was non invasive, in other words Print it existed, could be taken from the German postcard without damaging it In nineteen eighty two The West Germans brought the postguard to FBI headquarters in Washington, DC to be examined with laser technology There were a number of problems Investigators were not even sure the postguard contained a print So much time had passed since the postguard was written, there were questions about whether the finger oils that might be present would be visible. 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