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Next week, the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center is preparing
to place advertisements in Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian
newspapers, reminding of the offer to buy information about
war criminals for USD 10,000 the Estonian daily "Postimees" reported.
On November 16, an advertisement with the text "Lithuanian
Jews did not just disappear, they were brutally murdered
in Vilnius, Kaunas, Shiauliai and more than one hundred other
places," and a photo of a massacre of Jews in Kaunas
was published in Lithuanian papers. Zuroff said that the
center has already prepared photos to be published in Estonian
papers. Cilja Laud, the leader of the Estonian Jewish community,
said that she has not discussed the matter with Zuroff. So
far, the project "Operation "Last Chance"" has
yielded information about 60 alleged Nazi criminals in Lithuania,
one or two suspects in Latvia, and six suspects in Estonia.
Probes in Latvia, conducted by the Prosecutor General's Office,
have failed to confirm the Wiesenthal Center's reported information
about Nazi criminals from Latvia. (LETA)
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