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The decision by Perth Magistrate
Barbara Lane on Wednesday to allow the extradition of Karoly (Charles)
Zentai to Hungary to stand trial for the murder of Jewish teenager
Peter Balazs in Budapest on November 8, 1944, paves the way for an
unprecedented, historic victory for Holocaust justice in Australia. more...
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Pursuing a symbol of
Nazi perversion
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Doesn't the world owe it
to all the Nazis' victims to make equal efforts to bring each of their
torturers and killers to justice? Recently, I've found myself increasingly
preoccupied with that question, following a two-week mission to South
America on the trail of the Wiesenthal Center's most-wanted Nazi war
criminal, Dr. Aribert Heim. more...
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"Sramota je
da Sakica zovu uzorom Hrvata"
(It is a disgrace that Sakic is treated like a role-model for Croatians)
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The death in Zagreb early
last week of former Jasenovac commandant Dinko Sakic is a strong
reminder that Croatia is rapidly approaching the end of an important
phase of its confrontation with its World War II history and the
legacy of the NDH. more...
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Background: Australian
court removes barrier
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Wednesday's decision by
the Australian Supreme Court to reject a legal challenge by suspected
Hungarian Nazi war criminal Charles Zentai to prevent his extradition
to stand trial in Budapest for alleged crimes during World War II
puts an end to one of the most bizarre efforts ever mounted to block
the prosecution of a Holocaust perpetrator. more...
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A
presidential exoneration
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It's unlikely that April
14 will become a national holiday in Poland in the future, but I have
no doubt that this past Monday provided much cause for jubilation in
Warsaw. more...
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| 11.02.
2008 |
newstatesman.com |
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Last
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The news
that Austria is re-opening the case of Erna Wallisch, a female guard
at the Majdanek death camp, currently residing in Vienna, was accompanied
in many media outlets by a photograph of an elderly, rather disoriented
housewife - who looked as if she had been awaken from a deep sleep. more...
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Death
of Rojnica is a Stain on the Croatian Judiciary
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One of
the most powerful memories I have of my first visit to Croatia in
the summer of 1998
was of a conversation that I had with a Jewish female Holocaust survivor
living in Dubrovnik. more...
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| 9.12.2007 |
pagina12.com.ar |
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La ironía
de Rojnica
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Es una
ironía que el criminal de guerra ustacha Ivo Rojnica muera
en simultáneo con el lanzamiento en este país de la
fase final del programa “Operación Ultima Oportunidad” para
Sudamérica. Rojnica no era una de las personas específicamente
buscadas en este marco –sus antecedentes eran conocidos hace
años, y el sentido de este programa es localizar a los criminales
nazis de los que no tenemos información–, la promoción
de un proceso era un objetivo importante. more...
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| Fall
2007 |
SHALOM magazine |
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DIE
AFFÄRE ZENTAI
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Man könnte
sich kaum einen idyllischeren Ort für ein derart dramatisches Treffen
vorstellen. Die reizende Kaffeestube befindet sich in einem Holzhäuschen
auf einem Kai, das im australischen Perth („die abgelegenste Stadt
der Welt”) in den ruhigen Swan River hinausragt. Hier warte ich auf
eine Begegnung, die mich mit Unbehagen erfüllt. more...
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| Fall
2007 |
shalom-magazine.com |
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L’AFFAIRE
ZENTAI
Par le Dr Efraïm Zuroff
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Difficile à imaginer
un cadre plus
paisible pour une rencontre aussi
tendue. C’est dans un charmant café
en bois sur une jetée donnant sur la
rivière Swan, à Perth (en Australie,
«la ville la plus isolée du monde»)
que devait avoir lieu cette entrevue
appréhendée. more...
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| Fall
2007 |
shalom-magazine.com |
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Zentai
case
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It would
be hard to imagine a more tranquil site for such a dramatic meeting.
In a lovely wooden coffeehouse on a dock jutting out into the placid
Swan River in Perth, Australia (“the most isolated city in the world”),
I awaited an encounter that I did not relish more...
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Why the expert witness
will not face scrutiny
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Several weeks ago, Israel
received a request from Lithuania for judicial assistance which aroused
the ire of the Israeli Justice Ministry. A Jewish Israeli citizen was
suspected of committing war crimes and/or crimes against humanity during
World War Two. more...
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"EFRAIM ZUROFF:
voitlus kommunismikuritegudega pole minu mission”
(EFRAIM ZUROFF:Fighting Communist crimes is not my mission)
Eesti Paevaleht Online
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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In his op-ed in yesterday's
Eesti Paevaleht, Heiki Suurkask raised a very serious charge against
me and made two additional accusations. He claimed that I have no
empathy with the victims of Communism, that I believe in collective
guilt and that I did not submit any evidence of crimes against humanity
committed by Harry Mannil and Michael Gorshkow to back up my call
for their prosecution by Estonia. more...
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EFRAIM ZUROFF: võitlus
kommunismikuritegudega pole minu missioon
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Tavaliselt võtaksin ma
sellist kriitikat väga tõsiselt, kuid ma pean tunnistama, et esimene
süüdistus pani mind naerma oma iroonilise ajastuse tõttu. Täpselt
samal päeval, mil Suurkask avalikult süüdistas mind selles, et mul
pole kaastunnet kommunismiohvrite vastu, veetsin ma enamiku oma hommikust,
tegeldes delegatsiooniga Rumeenia kommunismikuritegude uurimise instituudist,
kes valmistab ette kohalike kommunistlike kurjategijate süüdistusi.
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| 15.08.
2007 |
THE JERUSALEM POST |
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Comment:
Facing up to decades of neglect towards Holocaust survivors |
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It would be hard to imagine
a more just cause than helping needy Israeli Holocaust survivors.
Yet it is only recently, in the wake of protests by local survivors
and social activists, that this issue has finally been firmly placed
on the national agenda in such a manner that it can no longer be
ignored.
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"An Open Letter to Marko Perkovic"
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I am probably the last person you were expecting to hear from these days, but in the wake of the controversy and polemics surrounding your recent concert in Maksimir Stadium, I thought that the best way to clarify the important issues being debated would be to turn to you directly. Before I pose my questions, I have to admit that you have inspired the love and support of Croatians all over the world, many of whom have rushed to defend you against my criticism. more..., Croatian text 1 Croatian text 2
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| 30.06.
2007 |
" La Nacion" [Costa
Rica] |
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"Half-truths
and distortions of facts" |
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Harry Mannil presented the readers of La Nacion with a very rosy
picture of his biography, one designed to convince readers that he
truly was “an honorable businessman.” Unfortunately,
Mannil’s version of his life is full of half-truths and distortions
of the facts that he does not want Costa Ricans to know. more...
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Medias
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Harry Mannil ha presentado a los lectores de La Nación una
visión muy halagüeña de su biografía, una
que podría convencer a los lectores de que era realmente un
honrado empresario. Por desgracia, la versión que Mannil ofrece
de su vida está llena de medias verdades y distorsiones de
hechos que no quiere que los costarricenses conozcan. more...
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Ustashe
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Last week I was reminded once again that history does not have to
repeat itself exactly to send some very nasty reminders of the past.
On May 26, 1941, shortly after the fall of Yugoslavia to the Nazis
and the subsequent establishment of the "Independent State of
Croatia" (NDH) under the rule of the local fascist movement,
the Ustashe, hundreds of students were ordered to carry out exercises
at Maksimir Stadium, the largest in Croatia and the current home
of soccer powerhouse Dynamo Zagreb. more...
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The
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Last weekend's large-scale riots in Estonia in which one demonstrator
was killed, over 100 people were injured, and more than 1,000 detained
in response to the government's decision to remove a Soviet-era monument
commemorating the victory of the Red Army over Nazi Germany from
downtown Tallinn to a remote location, were hardly surprising. more...
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Ein
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Warumhaben österreichische Geschichtslehrer mit einem gesunden Empfinden
für Gerechtigkeit und Moral Angst davor, ihren legitimen Protest öffentlich
zumachen, wenn ein ehemaliger Nazi geehrt wird? more...
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| Spring
2007 |
SHALOM magazine |
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DIE
AFFÄRE KEPIRO
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Wahrscheinlich ahnte A.M.
nicht im Entferntesten, dass seine gute Tat letztendlich die Entlarvung
eines der wichtigsten noch unbestraften Nazi- Kriegsverbrecher der
Welt ermöglichen würde, doch dies haben gute Taten oft so an sich. more...
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| spring
2007 |
shalom-magazine.com |
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L’AFFAIRE
KEPIRO
Par le Dr Efraïm Zuroff
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A.M. n’avait
sûrement pas la moindre idée des conséquences
liées à sa bonne action; il ne pouvait se douter qu’elle
permettrait de démasquer un des plus importants criminels
de guerre nazis du monde. more...
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| spring 2007 |
SHALOM magazine |
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The
Kepiro Affair
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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I very much doubt whether
A.M. had the slightest idea that his good deed would ultimately enable
the exposure of one of the most important unpunished Nazi war criminals
in the world, but that is often the nature of good deeds. In his case
it was the sheer chutzpa of a social acquaintance in Scotland, an elderly
Hungarian who bragged about his role as a master-sergeant of the Hungarian
gendarmerie in the deportation of Jews to Auschwitz, that prompted
his email in February 2005 to the general information address of the
Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. more...
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| 14.03.2007 |
THE JERUSALEM POST |
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Analysis:
A distinct phenomenon and a new challenge
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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A decision anywhere in
the world to establish a Nazi party, complete with the standard swastika
symbol, would obviously be cause for grave concern and immediate
protest. To ignore such a phenomenon would be unthinkable.
But Wednesday's announcement that a group of Taiwanese students,
headed by one Chao Lan, has established a Nazi party in Taiwan poses
a different problem than would be presented if an ostensibly similar
political organization were founded in Europe or in North or South
America. more...
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| 30.01.2007 |
THE JERUSALEM POST |
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Message from Novi Sad to Tzipi Livni
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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Last week I traveled to Novi Sad, Serbia to participate in a Holocaust-related memorial. Under normal circumstances, I doubt whether I would have been willing to fly to Belgrade and drive almost 100 kilometers to attend a ceremony, which takes place annually, but this year's event had special significance. more...
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| Fall 2006 |
Shalom magazine
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LETZTE
CHANCE IN WARSCHAU? |
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Die SHALOM Leserinnen und Leser sind bereits mit der «Operation:
Letzte Chance» vertraut, die vom Simon Wiesenthal Center und der
Targum Shlishi Foundation gestartet wurde: mit vereinten Kräften
sollen Nazi-Kriegsverbrecher vor Gericht gebracht werden, indem
eine finanzielle Belohnung für Informationen geboten wird, dank
denen die strafrechtliche Verfolgung und Bestrafung ermöglicht
wird. more...
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| Fall 2006 |
Shalom magazine
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DERNIÈRE
CHANCE À VARSOVIE? |
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Les lecteurs de SHALOM connaissent «l’Opération de la dernière
chance» lancée par le Centre Simon Wiesenthal et la Fondation Targum
Shlishi, dont l’objectif est de fournir un ultime et intense effort
pour traduire les criminels de guerre nazis en justice, en offrant
une rétribution financière pour toute information pouvant mener à l’action
judiciaire et à la condamnation. more...
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| 26.12.2006 |
THE JERUSALEM POST |
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Why
was David Irving let out of jail?
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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Anyone who
doubted the wisdom of releasing British anti-Semite David Irving
from an Austrian jail and converting the remaining two years of his
original sentence for Holocaust denial to probation did not have
to wait very long for proof that last week's decision by a judge
in Vienna, coming in the immediate aftermath of the "denial
festival" in Teheran, was at best hopelessly na ve, and at worst
outrageous. more...
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| Dec.
5, 2006 |
JTA (JERUSALEM) |
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Ethnic
hostilities prevent truth from being told about Jasenovac
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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It would be hard to imagine a more stark contrast than the scenes I saw
last week on the two banks of the Sava River, both part of the site
of the Jasenovac concentration camp, on the territory of former Yugoslavia.
On the northern bank, which today is part of the Republic of Croatia,
an impressive ceremony was held with the president, prime minister,
speaker of the Parliament and hundreds of guests in attendance to dedicate
a spanking new, modern, state of the art historical museum and learning
center. more..
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| Dec.
1, 2006 |
GLOBUS (CROATIA) |
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"I'm
Disappointed With Jasenovac, But Even More With the Speech by Seks"
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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I have to admit that
I was a bit nervous about coming to Jasenovac this week. It was
going to be my fourth visit to the site so it was not a question
of seeing this terrible place for the first time, but rather it
was the occasion. This time there were very high stakes. The creation
of a permanent historical exhibition was a difficult challenge
with incredibly important potential. Anyone acquainted with the
complex history of ex-Yugoslavia instinctively understands the
problems facing such a project. more..
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| Nov.
6, 2006 |
The Jerusalem Post |
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To
be a Jew in Denmark
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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It was Marcellus who
asserted in the play Hamlet that "something is rotten in the
state of Denmark," but one does not need the acumen of Shakespeare
to discern that things have changed for the worse in the country
that was once a symbol of European philo-Semitism. more..
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| October
30, 2006 |
The Jerusalem Report |
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A
Final Opportunity for Justice
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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The hunt began when information reached
us in February 2005 about Istvan Bujdoso, an elderly Hungarian
living in Scotland who had bragged about his role as a
master-sergeant of the Hungarian gendarmerie in the deportation of Jews from
Miskolc to Auschwitz. As it turned out, it was Bujdoso’s apparently irrepressible
urge to talk about that “heroic” period of his life that ultimately paved the
way for the discovery of a far senior colleague. more..
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Last
Chance in Warsaw ?
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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Readers of SHALOM are already acquainted
with “Operation: Last Chance,” which was launched by the Simon
Wiesenthal Center and the Targum Shlishi Foundation to maximize
the efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice by offering
financial rewards for information which would facilitate prosecution
and punishment. more..
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| August 2006 |
Simon Wiesenthal Center – Israel |
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Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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4.07.2006 |
THE JERUSALEM POST |
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When remembrance fails
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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Since 2000 anti-Semitism in Western Europe - and the Muslim world - has virtually monopolized the agendas of the Jewish defense agencies, but recent events in Poland, Croatia, Lithuania and Romania seem to indicate that we should start paying more attention to what is happening in Eastern Europe.
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Zu spät?
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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Nicht selten bewirkt die Pensionierung oder der Tod eines Menschen, der mit seiner Person für eine Sache steht, dass man dem von ihm geführten Kampf in den Augen der Öffentlichkeit ab sofort jede Existenzberechtigung abspricht. more..
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Trop tard?
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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Souvent, lorsque quelqu'un personnifiant une cause prend sa retraite ou décède, sa disparition est perçue par le grand public comme la fin de la raison d'être de ce combat. Toute forme d'action y étant relative devrait par conséquent être définitivement terminée. more..
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Plea for Jewish action in Darfur
One of the important lessons of the Holocaust is not to stand by idly when others are facing genocide
Dr. Efraim Zuroff, Edah
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It is fair to assume that it is not by accident that the "Save Darfur" rally planned for this coming week, April 30th, in Washington was scheduled in close proximity (five days apart) to Yom Hashoa. We can also expect the Holocaust to be invoked forcefully by those presenting the case for urgent action to end the mass murders being carried out in Sudan. Such a link is only natural given the fact that ever since the end of World War II, when its true scope was revealed, the Holocaust has become the unofficial yardstick for large-scale man-made tragedies. more..
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17.04.2006 |
Jerusalem Report |
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Across the Divide
Efraim Zuroff
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From the outset it was clear that this was not going to be an easy encounter. The Steiner siblings had learned that I would be in Perth and was planning to sit in on the opening session of the appeal launched by their father against his extradition to his native Hungary to face charges that he had committed murder during the Holocaust. more..
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4.04.2006 |
THE JERUSALEM POST |
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Victims or perpetrators?
By Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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In the Holocaust, the majority of victims were annihilated through a process of industrialized mass murder, making it often difficult to ascribe personal responsibility to an individual murderer.
Given the fact that most of the victims were identified, robbed of their possessions, concentrated and deported from their homes to distant death camps - where they were annihilated by a complex system especially established to facilitate their exploitation and extermination - responsibility for the murders is diffuse and shared by many participants. more..
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20.02.2006 |
THE JERUSALEM POST |
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Latvia, then and now
By Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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An official visit by a foreign head of state is always a good opportunity to assess the bilateral relations between Israel and the guest's country. This is particularly important when the visiting president comes from post-Communist Europe or, as in this case, from the former Soviet Union's Baltic republics. more..
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1.12.2005 |
w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m |
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The value of laws against Holocaust denial
By Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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With his arrest in Austria two weeks ago for having denied the Holocaust in 1989, David Irving has once again proved that he is undoubtedly the denial industry's most high-profile and therefore dangerous activist.
While the imprisonment, deportation and trial of fellow-denier Ernst Zundel (of German origin, but a resident of Canada for decades), who is facing a stiff prison term in Germany, merited scant attention in the international media, every minor development regarding Irving's incarceration in Vienna has been reported on at length, and his case has aroused a serious debate on the sagacity of the laws prohibiting Holocaust denial. more..
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21.09.2005 |
THE INDEPENDENT |
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Simon Wiesenthal:
Holocaust survivor who devoted the rest of his life to pursuing Nazi war criminals
By Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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One of the most famous survivors of the Holocaust, Simon Wiesenthal became over the years the personification of the efforts to hunt Nazi war criminals. At the same time, he deserves much of the credit for preserving the memory of the Nazis' victims, especially during the years immediately after the end of the Second World War. more..
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21.09.2005 |
THE JERUSALEM POST |
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'His legacy is justice'
By Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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The word that most obviously comes to mind when discussing Simon Wiesenthal's legacy is justice.
Wiesenthal has led the effort not only to track down but to bring to justice Nazi war criminals, and in the process has become the embodiment and personification of that lofty cause.
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| August 2005 |
Simon Wiesenthal Center – Israel |
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Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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25.07.2005 |
THE JERUSALEM REPORT |
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The Mass Murderer As Hero
By Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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In Soviet times, downtown Riga was dominated by two statues. One was the Freedom Monument, a national shrine affectionally called "Milda," built to commemorate the struggle for Latvian independence (first achieved in 1918) and the other was a large figure of Lenin, a stark reminder of the political reality of those days. Symbolically, the former monument faced the West, the source of hope for renewed Latvian independence, and the latter faced Moscow. They were back to back, underscoring the total contradiction between the values they represented. more..
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28.06.2005 |
THE JERUSALEM POST |
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Welcome to Israel, Prime Minister Sanader
By Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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The visit of Ivo Sanader, the first by a serving Croatian prime minister to Israel, is a milestone in the rapidly-improving bilateral ties between the two countries, and an encouraging sign that Croats and Jews have opened a new page in their relations following the tribulations of the past century. more..
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Herberts Cukurs. Noteikti vainigs
Sdr. Efraims Zurofs, Simona Vizentala centra Izraelas biroja direktors
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Ikvienam, kurš mekle parliecinošus pieradijumus tam, ka ir pareizak nacistiskos kara noziedzniekus tiesat, nevis sodit ar navi bez tiesas sprieduma, tikai jaiepazistas ar notikumiem attieciba uz Herbertu Cukuru pagajuša gada laika Latvija. more.. English...
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Can Nazi War Criminals Be
Prosecuted in the 21st Century?
By Dr. Efraim Zuroff |
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The recent memorial ceremonies
held at Auschwitz and at the
United Nations in late January
2005 to mark the sixtieth
anniversary of the liberation of
the largest of the Nazi death camps, with
the participation of numerous heads of
state and leading dignitaries, reinforced
the growing perception that over the
past half-century, the Holocaust has
become the ultimate paradigm of modern
genocide. more....
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Spring 5765/2005 |
SHALOM;
The European Jewish Times |
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“Operation: Last Chance”
By Dr. Efraim Zuroff |
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During the last week in January 2005, two significant
but ostensibly contradictory events regarding the Holocaust
took place in Berlin. On January 26, the Simon Wiesenthal
Center launched “Operation:
Last Chance,” which offers financial rewards of up to 10,000
euros for information leading to the prosecution and
punishment of Nazi war criminals, at a press conference
at the Bundestag and
on the next day Germany marked the sixtieth anniversary
of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp
in an official state ceremony
in the same building. more..... German... French...
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| Spring 5765/2005 |
Jewish
Political Studies Review |
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Eastern
Europe: Anti-Semitism in the Wake of Holocaust-Related Issues
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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While the study of the
Holocaust and its historical lessons has traditionally been considered
in the Western world as one of the most effective means of combating
anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia, in post-Communist Central and
Eastern Europe Holocaust-related issues have been a major cause of
anti-Semitic incidents and growing animus against Jews. more...
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| September 30, 2004 |
Jurnalul
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A Campaign to Reveal the Holocaust in Romania
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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This text appeared in
interview form under the title: “Campania de demascare a Holocaustului
in Romania,”(A
Campaign to Reveal the Holocaust in Romania), Jurnalul National,
September 30, 2004, Dr. Efraim Zuroff.
Slightly more than a year ago, the Simon Wiesenthal Center launched “Operation:
Last Chance” in Romania at a press conference hosted by the
Federation of Romanian Jewish Communities in Bucharest. Romania
was the fifth country in which the project was initiated. It was
started in July 2002 in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia and was
expanded in the fall of 2003 to Poland, Romania and Austria. more...
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| August 2004 |
Simon Wiesenthal Center – Israel |
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Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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The
director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center comments on the Croatian
reaction to “Operation:Last Chance”
NO FORGIVENESS FOR THE CRIMINALS
Slobodna Dalmacija
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It is a well-known psychological
phenomenon that the more threatened someone feels, the more likely
he or she is to make threats or even violently attack the individual
or group that they perceive as responsible for ostensibly endangering
them. Thus I was hardly surprised to learn that at the end of last
week, a letter from the so-called “Anti-Jewish Movement” which
was sent to Zoran Pusic, president of the Civic Committee for Human
Rights which is the local partner of the Simon Wiesenthal Center
in our “Operation: Last Chance” project, threatened to
start murdering Croatian Jews if a single Croat is put in prison
because of “sick Jewish ideas.” In fact, these were not
the first threats which Zoran Pusic and I have received since launching “Operation:
Last Chance” in Zagreb on June 30. Quite a few threatening
phone calls have already been received on our infoline (01-617-1530
or 091-579-9020), practically from the very first days, including
express threats of violence against us and assorted anti-Semitic
epithets. more...
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Ever since the Simon Wiesenthal
Center (SWC) announced its intention to launch "Operation: Last
Chance"(O:LC) in Hungary, there has been a lively debate in
the Hungarian media about the project. While the attitude of many
journalists was skeptical, few were in a position to comment intelligently
about the background of the project, its historical context and its
probable consequences. Thus the opinions of local Holocaust historians
assumed special significance and invariably it was Laszlo Karszai
who was asked to comment on O: LC. more...
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Gazeta
Wyborcza
by Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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Judging from the impassioned
negative responses by prominent Polish public figures to the launching
this week of the "Operation:Last Chance"(O:LC) infoline
in Warsaw, one can only wonder why the efforts to bring local Nazi
war criminals to justice in Poland have aroused such antagonism among
the very people whom one would have expected to be their most ardent
supporters. If former Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek, whose father
was murdered in Auschwitz, reacts with "disgust and anxiety," and
former dissident and Gazeta Wyborcza editor Adam Michnik describes
the project as dangerous and former Foreign Minister and Righteous
Among the Nations Wladyslaw Bartoszewski says that such an operation
is worthless, my conclusion is that either the Polish public is suffering
from a severe case of misinformation regarding O:LC's goals and methods,
or there is something much deeper behind this opposition. more...
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| 11.07.2003 |
Special To The
Jewish Week |
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What
Did You Do After The War, Dad?
Aryeh Rubin
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In early September, I embarked
on a trip to Poland, Romania and Austria to announce the launch of
Operation Last Chance: Rewards for Justice in those countries. Operation
Last Chance offers a $10,000 reward for information leading to the
arrest and conviction of Nazi war criminals.
The program, initiated in 2002, was conceived and is funded
by my nonprofit foundation Targum Shlishi in partnership with
the Israel office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which administers
the program. Dr. Efraim Zuroff, director of the Wiesenthal Center’s
Israel office, and I have been asked repeatedly: What is the
purpose of pursuing Nazi war criminals 58 years after the war?
After all, these criminals are old and frail. We, the Jewish
people, have more daunting and immediate issues with which to
deal. Why bother? more...
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Simon Wiesenthal Center – Israel |
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Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals
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