![Dr. Gerhart Riegner, World Jewish Congress representative in Geneva, Switzerland, sent a cable in August 1942 to American Jewish ... [LCID: 02301]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/7c135013-a914-4ff2-8c79-bf450bce1c00.jpg)
Dr. Gerhart Riegner, World Jewish Congress representative in Geneva, Switzerland, sent a cable in August 1942 to American Jewish leader Stephen S. Wise about the Nazi plan to exterminate European Jewry. Date uncertain.
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