(1911--1948), SS officer and deputy to Adolf Eichmann in the Jewish affairs department of the Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt, RSHA).
Wisliceny joined the SS and became part of the Security Service (SD) in 1934. By 1940 he was acting as advisor on Jewish affairs to the Slovakian government, and took part in the Deportation of Jews from Slovakia, Greece, and Hungary between 1942--1944. At the beginning of that period, the Slovakian Jewish underground Working Group tried to bribe Wisliceny into delaying Jewish deportation. Led by Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandel, the Working Group initiated the so-called Europa Plan in an attempt to rescue the remaining Jews of Europe. The contact with Wisliceny, however, petered out when Wisliceny was posted to Greece.. In March 1944, while helping Eichmann organize the deportation of Hungarian Jewry, Wisliceny took part in the negotiations with the Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest. These negotiations focused on the rescue of Hungarian Jews in exchange for goods.
After the war, Wisliceny served as a witness at the Nuremberg Trials and wrote several sworn statements about SS activities; his testimony was used at Eichmann's 1961 trial in Jerusalem (see also Eichmann Trials). Wisliceny himself was sentenced to death and hanged in Bratislava in 1948.
