OPERATION: LAST CHANCE is a campaign to bring remaining Nazi war criminals to justice by offering financial rewards for information leading to their arrest and conviction. To date the initiative has been launched in Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Romania, Austria, Croatia, and Hungary.

Operation: Last Chance is a joint project of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Targum Shlishi Foundation.

Wiesenthal Center 2009 Report on Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals
Full Text of Report Available on Wiesenthal Websites (April 1, 2008 – March 31, 2009)

Executive Summary of Wiesenthal Center 2009 Annual Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals
hebrew edition (April 20, 2009)

LATEST NEWS

February 4, 2010 -- A Russian survivor of the Nazi death camp Sobibor has said that a man on trial for working at the death camp, John Demjanjuk, was definitely one of the guards more... _______________________________________________________________________________________________ February 3, 2010 -- Охотники за нацистами возмущены тем, что Виктор Ющенко сделал Героем Украины военного преступника more... _______________________________________________________________________________________________ February 3, 2010 -- Ein russischer Überlebender des NS-Vernichtungslagers Sobibor will den in München angeklagten mutmaßlichen NS-Kriegsverbrecher John Demjanjuk als ehemaligen Wächter in dem Lager erkannt haben more... _______________________________________________________________________________________________ February 3, 2010 -- V procesu proti Johnu Demjanjukovi, obviněnému z podílu na vraždě tisíců Židů v nacistickém vyhlazovacím táboře Sobibor, by mohl nastat nový zvrat. Český rozhlas získal exkluzivní svědectví posledního ruského přeživšího vězně koncentračního tábora more... _______________________________________________________________________________________________ February 3, 2010 -- Angaben zufolge soll ein russischer Überlebender des NS-Vernichtungslagers Sobibor den mutmaßlichen Kriegsverbrecher John Demjanjuk auf einem Foto erkannt haben. Sollte dies zutreffen, wäre Alexej Vaizen der erste Zeuge, der Demjanjuk identifizieren könnte more... _______________________________________________________________________________________________ February 1, 2010 -- Croatia's outgoing president has decorated a prominent Nazi hunter, thanking him for helping Croatia to face the crimes it committed during World War II more... _______________________________________________________________________________________________ February 1, 2010 -- Hrvatski predsjednik Stipe Mesić odlikovao je danas predsjednicu Helsinškog odbora Srbije Sonju Biserko, voditelja jeruzalemskog centra Simon Wiesenthal Efraima Zuroffa i posljednjeg voditelja Misije OESS-a u Hrvatskoj Jorge Fuentesa visokim hrvatskim odlikovanjima more... _______________________________________________________________________________________________

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