Zuroff’s trial opens in Hungary
by GIL SHEFLER |
The trial of a Nazi-hunter accused of defaming a former Hungarian
soldier over his role in the massacre of Jews during World
War II opened in Hungary on Friday.
Dr. Sandor Kepiro is suing the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel director Efraim
Zuroff for accusing him of actively participating in the
killing of thousands of Jews, Serbs and Roma (gypsies)
when he was an officer in the Hungarian army in a notorious
raid on Novi Sad in 1942.
Kepiro was convicted by a Hungarian
court for his role in the killings in 1944 and 1946. However,
he escaped justice by fleeing to Germany and later to
South America.
Kepiro returned to his native
country after the fall of communism. In 2007, he was discovered
by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which demanded that charges
be brought against him.
“He tried to say that the killings
were all of partisans,” Zuroff said during the defamation
trial’s first hearing.
“However, that’s a blatant lie,
because they indiscriminately killed women and children.” jpost.com
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