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    SS-Rottenführer Viktor Pestek. Pestek opposed the Holocaust; he was a devout Catholic and was infatuated with Renée Neumann, a Jewish prisoner. Pestek accompanied...
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    political prisoner, noted that Baretzki was born in the same town as Viktor Pestek, an Auschwitz guard executed by the Nazis because he helped Siegfried...
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    Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew and block elder in the family camp, with Viktor Pestek, a Romanian Volksdeutscher SS guard, on 7 April. Lederer attempted to...
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    Kobylianska (partly Bukovina German), writer Otto Babiasch, Olympic boxer Viktor Pestek, Auschwitz guard who helped a prisoner escape, for which he was executed...
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