Two decades after Adolf Hitler terrorized Europe.

A high-ranking religious figure in the United States, Archbishop Valerian Tretha was embroiled in controversy.

Romanian immigrants identified Archbishop Trifa as a man with a secret past,

responsible for the murders of hundreds of Jews during the war.

Trefa denied it.

To see whether Trifa played a role in these horrific war crimes,

the United States government looked for scientific proof.

Sir, could you confirm your name for me, please?

My name is Virel.

In 1950, a Romanian immigrant, VRL Trefer, came to the United States to start a new life.

Trefer told United States immigration officials that he was a victim of the Nazis during the war.

He said that when he left his native Romania, he was taken prisoner by the German Gestapo.

He said he was held at the Dachau concentration camp and was lucky to escape with his life.

After the war, he said he struggled to survive.

And then, like hundreds of thousands of refugees, came to America under the Displaced Persons Act.

The Displaced Persons Act was a statute enacted by the U.S. Congress and signed by the President in 1948

that had the noble purpose of rescuing victims of persecution in Europe who were languishing in the so-called DP camps

and resettling them in the United States where life would be better.

This is a copy of one of the forms Trifa filled out for entry into this country.

In this official account of his treatment by the Germans,

he says he was a political prisoner held by the Gestapo.

In 1957, Trifa was granted U.S. citizenship.

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