Nazi hunter Ephraim Zuroff said he would speed up proceedings against the commander of the one-time Kassa detention camp, László Csatáry, in view of his advanced age.

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre deems Csatáry the most wanted war criminal in the world. The Budapest Investigative Prosecutor General’s Office last September ordered an inquiry against 95-year-old Csatáry.

Zuroff said he found a survivor from Kassa in Australia whose nine relatives were “sent to death by Csatáry.” Zuroff said Csatáry was responsible for deporting 15,000 Jews in 1944 and witnesses in Israel and the United States remember his cruelties.

According to the Wiesenthal Centre Csatáry emigrated to Canada after World War II, but light was shed on his war crimes in the 1990s and he was deprived of his citizenship in 1997. Csatáry left Canada of his own volition and returned to Hungary.

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