WBUR 8/19/10: Looking Out: Nazis on the Harbor. Reporter David Boeri reveals Kolm’s role in the secret plan to bring Nazi scientists into the U.S. after World War II: Henry Kolm had an interesting job as a 21-year-old. He smuggled Nazi scientists into Boston Harbor. He would meet most of them off Nixes Mate, the smallest of the Harbor Islands – no more than gravel shoals – where a beacon warns ships coming into the harbor. Then, he and a Boston whaler captain named Corky would scoot them out to Long Island and a secret hotel fashioned from the barracks of the old Civil War derelict known as Fort Strong.

WBUR 8/19/10: Henry Kolm: The Last Story." David Boeri on the experience of interviewing Kolm shortly before his death in late July. To learn more about young Austrian Jews during the Holocaust like Henry, see the documentary The Ritchie Boys.

Kolm lived at Weir Meadow, off Old Oxbow Rd. in North Wayland. Anyone interested in his illustrious life should visit his personal Web site: http://henrykolm.com/