Meanwhile, Leicestershire Police, working in co-operation with specialist officers from Scotland Yard, said they had asked the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem to send witness statements and evidence that implicate Kalejs in mass murder in his native Latvia.

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The Director General met with the five laureates of the Eighth Edition of the Holocaust Essay Contest, organised by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and the Association "Verbe et Lumiere, " in presence of Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Dr. Ilya Altman, Director of the Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Centre, together with Mr. Paul Schaffer, Holocaust survivor and Honorary President of Yad Vashem-France.

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