| LC control no. | nr 97045413 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Künzle, Anton, 1919- |
| Variant(s) | Ḳintsleh, Anṭon, 1919- Kuenzle, Anton, 1919- |
| See also | Real identity: Medad, Jacob, 1919-2012 |
| Birth date | 1919 |
| Death date | 2012 |
| Found in | Ḥisul ha-talyan me-Rigah, c1997: t.p. (Anṭon Ḳintsleh) t.p. verso (Anton Künzle [in rom.]) cover p. 4 (b. in Germany in 1919; imm. in 1934 to Palestine; former senior IDF officer; a pen-name of Yitsḥaḳ) The execution of the Hangman of Riga, 2004: t.p. ("Anton Kuenzle") The good assassin, 2020: CIP galley (Mio assigned persona: Anton Kuenzle; raised in Germany as a Jew in the early '30s; one of the great, perhaps the greatest, undercover Mossad operative; known as “the man with the hundred identities”; real name Jacob Medad, or Mio) Haaretz, website, viewed August 20, 2019: Mossad Agent Who Helped Abduct Eichmann Dies at 93, Jul 01, 2014 (Former Mossad agent Yaakov Meidad; died Saturday at the age of 93. Meidad was living in Tel Aviv; born in 1919 in Berslau, Germany, (now Polish Wroslaw); immigrated on his own to Palestine in 1934; studied at the Hebrew Reali high school in Haifa before enlisting in the Technion to study electrical engineering; was the first Jew from the Yishuv to volunteer to serve in the British Army and fight Nazism; joined the Mossad in 1955; sent to Brazil to befriend Herberts Cukurs, under a false identity of a European businessman named Anton Künzle) |
| Associated language | heb ger |
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