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TIL about Boris Weisfeiler, a Soviet-born American mathematician who was kidnapped in 1985 — allegedly for his Jewish faith — by the Colonia Dignidad, a Nazi commune in Chile. His fate remains unknown, as several witness have claimed to have seen him in the Colonia even decades later.

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