The Simon Wiesenthal
Center today totally rejected the charge by parliament ombudsman
Attila Peterfalvi that “Operation: Last Chance” was
engaged in illegal activity by examining information regarding
crimes committed during the Holocaust in Hungary.
In a statement issued today in Jerusalem, the Center’s
chief Nazi-hunter Dr. Efraim Zuroff, who coordinates “Operation:
Last Chance” worldwide, termed the attempt to find
a legal basis to stop the project “a pathetic effort
to use an issue ostensibly linked to human rights to protect
those who never had any concern for the human rights of their
victims.”
According to Zuroff:
“The Wiesenthal Center’s project is already
operational in eight different countries and its legality
has hereto never been challenged. Apparently there are those
in Hungary who are desperate to protect local Nazi war criminals
and collaborators who have never been held accountable for
their crimes. Such an effort only demonstrates how important
the success of “Operation: Last Chance” is for
Hungarian society and its ability to confront the complicity
of Hungarians in the crimes of the Holocaust.”
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