Mansal Denton, 20, a volunteer for 18 months at the Mazal Holocaust Library in San Antonio, was arrested for stealing documents and selling them online, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Retired Mexico City businessman Harry Mazal, 73, owns the archives, one of the largest privately held Holocaust archives in the world.
Among the items Denton is believed to have stolen, the Chronicle reported, were a handwritten letter by Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, a diary kept by Himmler’s daughter and documents related to the Nuremberg War Crimes trials.
While scanning documents to post on the archive’s website, Denton allegedly stole them. In December, Mazal found some of the missing documents for sale by Denton online. Denton was arrested Jan. 12 and charged with second-degree felony theft. — jta