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Ladislaus Csizsik-Csatary, spotted by British reporters, implicated in testimony
by survivor in Sydney.
New information passed to the Hungarian state prosecutor recently may lead to
the arrest of 97-year-old Ladislaus Csizsik-Csatary, considered
the most wanted former Nazi, Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal
Center told The Times of Israel on Sunday.
The news comes on the heels of a report by the Sun newspaper of Britain, which
confronted Csizsik-Csatary in Budapest based on information
from the center.
Zuroff, considered the world’s foremost
Nazi-hunter, said a Holocaust survivor now living in Sydney
testified that Csizsik-Csatary took part in the capture of
Jews of foreign nationality in Hungary as early as 1941,
and also ordered that Jews be brought back from manual labor
so that they could be deported to Ukraine, where they were
subsequently murdered.
The new material, including the testimony,
was presented to the Hungarian prosecutor last week, Zuroff
said.
“I expect them to question him and
take his passport to prevent him from running away,” Zuroff
told Haaretz.
In an April report released by the
center, Csizsik-Csatary was described as having “served as
the commander of the Hungarian police” in the Hungarian-occupied
Slovakian town of Kassa, today known as Kosice, and “in charge
of the ghetto of ‘privileged’ Jews.”
According to the report, Csizsik-Csatary
”helped organize the deportation to Auschwitz of approximately
15,700 Jews from Kosice and [the] vicinity in spring 1944.”
After the war Csizsik-Csatary escaped
to Canada, and in 1997 he was stripped of his Canadian citizenship,
causing him to leave the country.
Though the Simon Wiesenthal Center
located Csizsik-Csatary several months ago, Zuroff praised
the Sun for investing money, time and resources that the
center could not.
The Sun “deserves a lot of credit,”
for managing to “get images and track things down,” Zuroff
said.
The paper reported that Csizsik-Csatary
denied everything and slammed the door in the face of the
reporters. timesofisrael.com
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