22.01.2020 newdelhitimes.com
Suspected Nazi Commander Living in US Dies at 100

A Minneapolis carpenter whom the Associated Press exposed as a former Nazi commander — a charge his family fiercely denied — has died more...


22.01.2020 viportal.co
Michael Karkoc, Exposed as a War Criminal, Is dead at 100

Michael Karkoc, a retired Minnesota carpenter who was exposed as a former commander of a Nazi-led unit that was accused of atrocities in World War II, died on Dec. 14, public and cemetery records show. He was 100 more...


22.01.2020 fox23maine.com
Minnesota man exposed as commander of Nazi-led unit dies

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A retired Minnesota carpenter whom The Associated Press exposed as a former commander of a Nazi-led unit accused of war atrocities has died more...


07. 11. 2018 mako.co.il
אזרח גרמני בן 94 נשפט כקטין על מעשיו בשואה

שמו של יוהן ריבוגן הכה גלים ברחבי העולם, לאחר שפורסם כי הוא נשפט על מעורבותו ברציחתם של מאות אנשים בזמן תקופתו כשומר במחנה הריכוז שטוטהוף בשנות ה-40. אפרים זורוף, מנכ"ל מרכז "שמעון ויזנטל", התייחס לידיעה ואמר כי "חלוף הזמן אינו מקטין את אשמתם של פושעי השואה
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10. 07. 2018 sputniknews.com
Danger of Poland's Holocaust Law is in Whitewashing Polish Crimes - Author

srael and Poland have reached a compromise with regard to the law that prohibits blaming Poland for the Holocaust. According to the final version of the legislation, presented during a joint statement by both Israel and Poland, anyone found associating Nazi Germany's crimes with the entire Polish nation will face fines but not prison terms more...


30. 01. 2018 dw.com
Poland enlists Interpol in hunt for Nazi war criminals

Poland has asked Interpol for help in finding 1,600 former Nazis accused of committing war crimes in German concentration camp more...


20.01.2018 deutschlandfunk.de
Polen sucht noch lebende SS-Männer

Das polnische Institut für Nationales Gedenken sucht nach ehemaligen SS-Männern more...


14.03.2017 blic.rs
Poljska potvrdila da je čovek iz Minesote bivši nacistički komandant

Poljska će tražiti hapšenje i izručenje čoveka iz Minesote kojeg je Asošiejted pres označio kao bivšeg komandanta nacističke jedinice koja je spaljivala poljska sela i ubijala civile u Drugom svetskom ratu, saopštilo je danas poljsko tužilaštvo more...


14.03.2017 morningstaronline.co.uk
Poles seek WWII Ukrainian nazi’s extradition

POLISH prosecutors said yesterday that they would seek the extradition of a Ukrainian WWII nazi collaborator and war criminal harboured by the United States more...


14.03.2017 timesbulletin.com
Poland confirms Minnesota man as Nazi commander

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland will seek the arrest and extradition of a Minnesota man exposed by The Associated Press as a former commander in an SS-led unit that burned Polish villages and killed civilians in World War II, prosecutors said Monday more...


13.03.2017 newsadvance.com
The Latest: Nazi hunter praises prosecutors' arrest efforts

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Latest on Poland's announcement that it will seek extradition of a Minnesota man accused of being a Nazi unit commander more...


13.03.2017 wcnc.com
Arrest warrant sought for US man, alleged Nazi commander

WARSAW, Poland - A prosecutor in Poland says that evidence shows without doubt that a Minnesota man was a Nazi unit commander suspected of contributing to the death of 44 Poles more...


13.03.2017 saukvalley.com
Prosecutor wants 98-year-old former Nazi extradited from U.S. for war crimes

MINNEAPOLIS – A prosecutor in Poland is contending there is ample evidence to seek the arrest of a Minneapolis man on allegations that he commanded a Nazi unit implicated in the deaths of 44 Poles, The Associated Press reported Monday more...


22.07.2016 heritagefl.com
Poland wrestles with evidence of complicity 75 years after Jedwabne pogrom

JEDWABNE, Poland (JTA)-As German army troops invaded eastern Poland, Ichak Lewin's family fled their town of Wizna more...


21.07.2016 tabletmag.com
Ukrainian Holocaust Perpetrators Are Being Honored in Place of Their Victims

Olevsk, a sleepy if ancient town deep in the backwoods of Ukraine, became part of my life in 2003 when I came across a dozen testimonies about vicious pogroms there at the beginning of the German-Soviet war of 1941 to 1945 more...


21.07.2016 educationnews.org
Polish Education Minister Under Fire for Holocaust Comments

Poland’s education minister has implied that accounts of Polish citizens murdering Jewish people during the Holocaust were inconclusive more...


17.07.2016 forward.com
Polish Minister Says Unclear If Neighbors Killed Jews in Notorious Pogrom

A mid a public debate about the complicity of Poles in the murder of Jews in the Holocaust, Poland’s education minister implied that historical accounts of such atrocities are inconclusive more...


14.07.2016 newpolandexpress.pl
Polish education minister mum on who killed Jedwabne Jews

WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Amid a public debate about the complicity of Poles in the murder of Jews in the Holocaust, Poland’s education minister implied that historical accounts of such atrocities are inconclusive more...


09.06.2016 welt.de
So halfen polnische Bauern beim Judenmord

Ein kanadischer Historiker hat erforscht, wie katholische Polen die deutschen Besatzer bei der Jagd auf untergetauchte Juden unterstützten more...


10. 07. 2015 newpolandexpress.pl
Gas chamber film criticised

An exhibition at Krakow’s MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art has come under fire from Jewish groups for displaying a controversial video clip. more...


08. 07. 2015 parameter.sk
Gázkamrában fogócskázó emberekről készült videó miatt tiltakoznak zsidó szervezetek

Gázkamrában fogócskázó meztelen férfiakat és nőket ábrázoló videoinstalláció miatt tiltakoznak zsidó szervezetek. more...


08. 07. 2015 krstarica.com
"Šuge", uvreda ili oda žrtvama holokausta

"Šokirani smo jurnjavom za senzacijom pod maskom slobode umetničkog izražavanja, koje je dužno da bude uviđavno i da se rukovodi dobrim namerama", izrazio je šok i ogorčenje jevrejskih organizacija u svetu predsednik Svetskog jevrejskog kongresa Ronald Loder i zatražio da se film hitno skloni iz Muzeja, javljaju poljski mediji, prenosi agencija Beta. more...


08. 07. 2015 bostonglobe.com
Jewish officials protest art installation at Polish museum

WARSAW — Jewish officials are furious over a video installation at a Polish museum that shows naked men and women playing a game of tag in a gas chamber. more...


07. 07. 2015 pulsoslp.com.mx
Funcionarios judíos protestan instalación de arte en Polonia

VARSOVIA, Polonia (AP) — Una instalación de video en un museo polaco que muestra a hombres y mujeres desnudos jugando corre que te pillo en una cámara de gas ha ofendido a funcionarios judíos. more...


07. 07. 2015 delfi.lt
Žydų organizacijų vadovus užrūstino lenkų menas

Žydų organizacijų vadovus papiktino viename Lenkijos muziejuje demonstruojama vaizdo instaliacija, kurioje pavaizduoti nuogi vyrai ir moterys dujų kameroje žaidžia gaudynes. more...


07. 07. 2015 klaipeda.diena.lt
Žydai protestuoja prieš Lenkijos muziejuje eksponuojamą vaizdo instaliaciją

Žydų organizacijų vadovus papiktino viename Lenkijos muziejuje demonstruojama vaizdo instaliacija, kurioje pavaizduoti nuogi vyrai ir moterys dujų kameroje žaidžia gaudynes. more...


03. 07. 2015 timesofisrael.com
Polish art museum features naked tag game in gas chamber

A Polish art museum has resumed an art installation featuring a video of naked men and women playing tag in a gas chamber, despite protests by Jews. more...


02. 07. 2015 jpost.com
Polish museum returns controversial gas chamber installation

‘Game of Tag’ was initially removed amid protests by Jewish groups. more...


13. 06. 2015 i24news.tv
Polish museum removes controversial Holocaust-themed installation

Piece representing naked Auschwitz inmates playing tag was part of exhibition sponsored by Israeli embassy. more...


11. 06. 2015 jpost.com
Polish museum removes controversial gas chamber installation

Krakow’s modern art museum pulls video piece, which consisted of footage of naked people playing tag. more...


10. 06. 2015 jpost.com
Wiesenthal Center condemns Foreign Ministry over Polish exhibition

The exhibition on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow included a video installation in which naked people play tag inside a gas chamber. more...


20. 05. 2015 israelnationalnews.com
Poland to Publish Extensive List of Auschwitz Staff

Poland is preparing an extensive list of the personnel who served in Auschwitz, where more than 8,700 people are now believe to have worked. more...


21. 04. 2015 washingtonpost.com
Confronting chilling truths about Poland’s wartime history

The transmission of history requires knowledge but also nuance. Nowhere is this more evident than when examining the torturous relations between Jews and the local people among whom they lived in Poland and elsewhere in German-occupied Europe. more...


03. 02. 2015 americanisraelite.com
Politics, Putin cast shadow over Auschwitz liberation anniversary
PRAGUE (JTA) — When they announced the ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Polish officials insisted that at this year’s event, “the eyes of the world will be focused” on about 300 Holocaust survivors whose presence Tuesday at the former Nazi death camp near Krakow may be the last gathering of its sort.more...

27. 1. 2015 news.vice.com
Auschwitz 70th Anniversary Renews Debate over Concentration Camp's Future
Some 300 Auschwitz survivors today returned to the site of their wartime captivity to mark 70 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland.more...

25. 1. 2015 globalresearch.ca
Auschwitz: Where Is the Root of “Polish Revisionism”?
The statement by Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna, claiming that it was Ukrainians alone who allegedly liberated the prisoners from Auschwitz, needs no further comment.more...

16. 1. 2015 rt.com
Ex-Nazi collaborators equating USSR with fascists to whitewash own sins – Jewish intl. organization
There has been “a struggle going on for several years over the narrative of WWII and the Holocaust,” chief of the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal center, Efraim Zuroff, told RT.more...

24. 06. 2013 timesofisrael.com
Survivors recall 1944 village raid by Nazi unit led by Michael Karkoc
CHLANIOW, Poland (AP) — Henryka Jablonska's eyes well up as she recalls the moment more than six decades ago when a man in a dark uniform aimed a machine gun at her.

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16. 06. 2013 haaretz.com
Shock lingers after Nazi leader found in U.S.
The revelation that a top former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in Minneapolis for the past six decades came as a shock to those who knew 94-year-old Michael Karkoc.

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14. 06. 2013 dailymail.co.uk
'I don't think I can explain': Retiree, 94, stuns neighbors in quiet Minnesota town after he is exposed as a notorious Nazi commander who 'burnt villages filled with women and children'
A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit who lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States more than 60 years ago said Friday that he 'can't explain' his wartime service.

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07.01.13 ziare.com
Hitler rugandu-se: Un simbol controversat al nazismului
O statuie care il infatiseaza pe Hitler in timp ce se roaga a starnit reactia furioasa a unui rabin din Polonia si a comunitatii evreiesti din lume. Aceasta se afla intr-un loc in care mii de evrei polonezi au fost omorati de nazisti. more...

06.01.2013 BFMTV.com
Polémique autour d'une statue de Hitler dans l'ancien ghetto de Varsovie
Le grand rabbin de Pologne Michael Schudrich s'est indigné de la présence d'une statue représentant Adolf Hitler agenouillé dans le site de l'ancien ghetto juif de Varsovie, une provocation de l'artiste italien controversé Maurizio Cattelan. more...

06.01.2013 lrytas.lt
Italas skulptorius ir vėl bando konservatyvių lenkų kantrybę
Buvusiame Varšuvos gete klūpi ir meldžiasi milijonus žmonių myriop pasiuntęs Vokietijos diktatorius Adolfas Hitleris. Tiksliau, jo skulptūra. more...

06.01.2013 scmp.com
Hitler statue in ex-Warsaw Ghetto angers Jews
Poland's chief rabbi voiced outrage over a statue of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler kneeling at a Holocaust site in Warsaw, part of an installation by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. more...

05.01.13 Cluj4all‏
Arta ca pretext pentru provocări abjecte: O statuie a lui Hitler a fost amplasată în fostul ghetou din Varșovia (Polonia)
Statuia, realizată de controversatul artist italian Maurizio Cattelan, îl prezintă pe liderul nazist, cu statura de copil, îngenuncheat pentru rugăciune. more...

04.01.2013 lepoint.fr
Une statue de Hitler dans l'ancien ghetto de Varsovie indigne
Le grand rabbin de Pologne Michael Schudrich s'est indigné vendredi de la présence d'une statue représentant Adolf Hitler agenouillé dans le site de l'ancien ghetto juif de Varsovie, une provocation de l'artiste italien controversé Maurizio Cattelan. more...

04.01.2013 lrt.lt
Hitlerio skulptūra Lenkijoje kursto diskusijas
Lenkijoje, buvusio Varšuvos geto teritorijoje, pastatyta besimeldžiančio Hitlerio statula sukėlė pasaulio diskusijas dėl saviraiškos laisvės ir ja užgaunamų žmonių jausmų. more...

04.01.2013 lzinios.lt
Klūpantis Hitleris supykdė
Lenkijos eksponuojama klūpančio Hitlerio skulptūra sukėlė skandalą. Labiausiai piktinamasi tuo, kad ji pastatyta buvusio Varšuvos geto vietoje. more...

03.01.13 azadliq.org
Hitler diz üstə çökdü – Polşa qarışdı
Nasist Almaniyasının lideri olmuş Adolf Hitler-in diz üstə qoyulan heykəli Polşada səs-küy yaradıb. more...

03.01.13 nrk.no
Hitlerstatue provoserer
Den italienske kunstneren Maurizio Cattelan har satt sinnene i kok med statuen av Adolf Hitler som knelende og bedende skolegutt. more...

03.01.13 politiken.dk
Statue af bedende Hitler udstilles i jødisk kvarter
Selv om de forbipasserende kun kan se statuens ryg, ved de, hvad den forestiller. more...

02.01.13 thedailybeast.com
There's Now a Hitler Statue in the Warsaw Ghetto
Where to even begin. more...

02.01.13 polennu.dk
Hitler-statue i tidligere jødisk ghetto provokerer
- En ubetænksom provokation, mener Simon Wiesenthal Center, der er en jødisk interesseorganisation, om placeringen af en statue, der er lavet af den italienske kunstner Maurizio Cattelan, skriver Jyllands Posten. more...

01.01.13 mdzol.com
Hitler reza de rodillas en el gueto de Varsovia
Si una estatua con la figura de Adolf Hitler arrastra de por sí la polémica, ésta se ha disparado aún más con su instalación en el antiguo gueto de Varsovia donde miles de judíos fueron asesinados por los nazis o enviados a su muerte. more...

01.01.13 stiri.mobi
Statuie controversată la Varșovia
Obişnuit să provoace, artistul contemporan face valuri în Polonia. Opera sa, Him, o statuie care îl reprezintă pe Adolf Hitler în genunchi, ca şi cum s-ar ruga, a fost expusă în urmă cu o lună în ghetoul din capitala Poloniei, acolo unde mii de evrei fuseseră instalaţi în cel de-al Doilea Război Mondial. more...

31.12.12 realitatea.net
Statuia care îi DEZGUSTĂ pe evreii din toată lumea
Obişnuit să provoace, artistul contemporan face valuri în Polonia. more...

30.12.12 vl.no
Knelende Hitler i jødisk getto
Sommeren 1942 ble om lag 300.000 jøder deportert fra Warszawa til konsentrasjonsleiren Treblinka, hvor døden ventet dem. more...

29.12.12 eldiario24.com
La estatua de Hitler rezando que genera polémica
El artista italiano Maurizio Cattelan creó la obra llamada HIM, que muestra a Hitler de rodillas rezando. El objetivo, comentó Cattelan, es llevar a la reflexión sobre la naturaleza de la maldad. more...

29.12.12 adevarul.ro
O statuie care îl înfăţişează pe Hitler rugându-se " insultă amintirea evreilor"
O statuie care îl înfăţişează pe Hitler îngenuncheat, rugându-se, a stârnit reacţii aprinse din partea comunităţii evreieşti care susţine că opera de artă este o insultă la adresa evreilor care au pierit în ghetoul din Varşovia în care aceasta a fost amplasată. more...

29.12.12 rt.com
Hitler statue in former Polish ghetto creates furor
The statue of Adolf Hitler placed in former ghetto in Warsaw caused public uproar, with many calling it a ‘senseless provocation’, while others claim the artwork has no intention to harm anyone’s memory. more...

28.12.12 huffingtonpost.com
Maurizio Cattelan's Statue Of Praying Hitler In Ex-Warsaw Ghetto Sparks Emotion
WARSAW, Poland — A statue of Adolf Hitler praying on his knees is on display in the former Warsaw Ghetto, the place where so many Jews were killed or sent to their deaths by Hitler's regime, and it is provoking mixed reactions. more...

28.12.12 guardian.co.uk
Controversy over Adolf Hitler statue in Warsaw ghetto
A statue of Adolf Hitler praying on his knees has sparked controversy after going on display in the former Warsaw ghetto. more...

04.07.12 forward.com
Nazi-Era Case Reopens Old Polish Wounds
Poland has just reopened a 71-year-old case involving the rape and murder of 20 Jewish women. more...

09.11.11 krakowpost.com
Nazi Hunt Launched in Poland
Around 500 Auschwitz survivors are to be interviewed after the Polish government re-opened an investigation into the atrocities committed there during World War II in the search for potential war criminals. more...

28.10.11 publico.pt
Polónia reabre investigações aos crimes cometidos em Auschwitz
As autoridades polacas reactivaram a investigação aos crimes de guerra e contra a humanidade cometidos no campo de concentração de Auschwitz durante a II Guerra Mundial, onde se estima terem sido mortas um milhão de pessoas. more...

28.10.11 ibtimes.com
Last Hunt for Nazi War Criminals: Poland Reopens Investigation into Auschwitz Genocide
The Institute of National Remembrance in Poland has vowed to complete the investigation into Second World War crimes committed at Auschwitz which started decades ago but shutdown during the Cold War. more...

27.10.11 giornalettismo.com
“C’è ancora molto da capire su Auschwitz”
La Polonia dopo oltre 30 anni ha deciso di aprire le indagini sul più noto dei campi di concentramento nazisti. more...

27.10.11 slatest.slate.com
Poland Reopens Probe Into Nazi Death Camp Guards
Poland announced Thursday that it is reopening its probe into World War II war crimes at Auschwitz and other Nazi-era death camps. The goal: to track down and prosecute any living Nazis who worked at the camps, before time runs out. more...

04.02.2011 rp.pl
Polska osądzi nazistę?
Decyzję podjęła sędzina Elizabeth Hacker z Detroit w stanie Michigan. „Pan John Kalymon brał udział w nazistowskiej eksterminacji Żydów Europy. Dokonywał mordów, które miały służyć do osiągnięcia tego celu. Ani on, ani ktokolwiek inny, kto łamał prawa człowieka, nie może traktować Ameryki jako miejsca azylu” – napisano w oświadczeniu prokuratury. more...

12.07.2008 rp.pl
Yitzshak Arad's choices
Brigadier general Yitzshak Arad born as Itzhak Rudnicki can find a fulfilment in his life. He is a hero. Hero spelled with block capital H. His combat trail started still in Poland, in an underground organisation operating in the Święciany Ghetto. more...

5.06.2008 fr-online.de
Polen will SS-Schergen jagen
Bislang nicht bestraften NS-Kriegsverbrechern in Polen soll es doch noch an den Kragen gehen. Das polnische Institut für Nationales Gedenken will erreichen, dass deutsche Staatsanwälte die noch lebenden Mitglieder der Brigade Dirlewanger verfolgen. more...

23.05.2008 diepresse.com
Mitglieder von SS-Brigade sollen verfolgt werden
Das polnische Institut für das nationale Gedächtnis will die noch lebenden Mitglieder der SS-Brigade von Oskar Dirlewanger verfolgen. more...

20.05.2008 derstandard.at
Polen erhielt Namen und Adressen von 100 SS-Soldaten
Nazi-Jäger Zuroff: Polen soll weiterhin NS-Verbrecher verfolgen Rund 100 Namen von Soldaten und deren Adressen aufgetaucht. more...

20.05.2008 20min.ch
Zuroff jagt SS-Nazis in Polen
Sie war eine der brutalsten SS-Brigaden: Jetzt könnte es den Überlebenden der SS-Brigade «Dirlewanger» endlich an den Kragen gehen. Denn Nazijäger Efraim Zuroff hat eine heisse Fährte - sie führt nach Polen. more...

ZEIT online 02.2008 images.zeit.de
Der Strafe entwischt
In Wien starb die ehemalige KZ-Wärterin Erna Wallisch. Sie hatte gestanden, in Majdanek Kinder zur Gaskammer geführt zu haben. Doch verurteilt wurde sie nie. Am Ende hätte die Vergangenheit sie fast noch eingeholt. more...

26.02.2008 Clarin
Murió la "diabla de Majdanek", sádica carcelera del nazismo
Era investigada por la Justicia de Viena. Y la buscaba desde 2000 el Centro Wiesenthal. more...

23.02.2008 welt.de
Angeklagte KZ-Aufseherin stirbt in Wien
Wien - Knapp einen Monat nach der Wiederaufnahme neuer Ermittlungen wegen mutmaßlicher Gräueltaten ist die ehemalige KZ-Aufseherin Erna Wallisch in Wien gestorben. more...

22.02.2008 ejpress.org
Austrian Nazi camp suspect dies
VIENNA (AFP)---A 86-year-old woman accused by Nazi hunters of torturing and killing women and children while a death camp guard during World War II has died in hospital, the Austrian news agency APA reported. more...

22.02.2008 jta.org
Nazi camp guard dies before trial
A former concentration camp guard under investigation in Vienna for Nazi-era war crimes died. more...

22. 02.2008 montevideo.com.uy
Crímenes sin castigos
Efraim Zuroff, director del Centro Simon Wiesenthal, contó a Montevideo Portal su frustración por el caso de Erna Wallisch, séptima en la lista de nazis buscados. Murió ayer sin que se pudiera juzgarla antes por sus crímenes. more...

22.02.2008 nfc.co.il
מתה הרוצחת הנאצית ממחנה מיידנק
ארנה ואליש מתה בבית חולים אוסטרי, בת 86, חודש לאחר שחודשה החקירה נגדה על ליווי הקורבנות היהודיים לתאי הגזים במחנה המוות
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22.02.2008 diepresse.com
KZ-Aufseherin Wallisch tot: Justiz muss Akten schließen
Wien (APA/red.) Erna Wallisch, ehemalige KZ-Aufseherin, hat bis zuletzt die internationalen Behörden und Medien beschäftigt. Nun wurde das Mordverfahren gegen die Frau von der Staatsanwaltschaft Wien „von Todes wegen beendet“. more...

21.02.2008 wiesenthal.com
Austrian Nazi camp suspect dies
An 86-year-old woman accused by Nazi hunters of torturing and killing women and children while a death camp guard during World War II has died in hospital, prosecutors said Thursday. more...

21.02.2008 iht.com
Alleged Nazi concentration camp killer dies
VIENNA, Feb 21 (Reuters - A woman alleged to have murdered prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp during World War Two has died aged 86, Austrian justice officials said on Thursday. more...

21.02.2008 lemonde.fr
Autriche: décès d'une ex-gardienne de camp nazi, objet d'une enquête
Une Autrichienne de 86 ans, Erna Wallisch, soupçonnée de meurtre alors qu'elle était gardienne au camp de concentration de Maidanek (Pologne) et contre laquelle le parquet de Vienne venait d'ouvrir une enquête, est décédée, a-t-on appris de source officielle jeudi. more...

15.02.2008 rpp.com.pe
Investigan a una de las nazis más buscadas, "la diabla de Majdanek"
Nada hace pensar al observar el frágil físico de Erna Wallisch, de 85 años, que haya sido una de las guardias nazis más brutales en un campo de la muerte y que la Fiscalía austríaca haya abierto una instrucción preliminar por ello. more...

12.02.2008 networld.at
Zeugin belastet Nazi-Schergin Wallisch:
" Im KZ nannten wir sie nur 'Die Bestie'"
Aus den Lautsprechern des ostpolnischen Konzentrationslagers Majdanek dröhnte am 3. November 1943 klassische Musik. "Erntefest" nannten die Nationalsozialisten in ihren Akten das grausame Massaker, das an diesem Tag stattfand. more...

9.02.2008 actualidad.terra.es
Investigan a una de las nazis mбs buscadas, 'la diabla de Majdanek'
Nada hace pensar al observar el frбgil fнsico de Erna Wallisch, de 85 aсos, que haya sido una de las guardias nazis mбs brutales en un campo de la muerte y que la Fiscalнa austrнaca haya abierto una instrucciуn preliminar por ello. more...

6.02.2008 falter.at
Der Fall Erna Wallisch
Seit sechzig Jahren lebt die Pensionistin Erna Wallisch in Kaisermühlen. Einst gestand sie, Kinder zur Gaskammer geführt zu haben. Nun holt die Vergangenheit sie ein. more...

29.01.2008 lemonde.fr
Austria examines new evidence against former Nazi guard
Le parquet de Vienne a annoncé mardi l'ouverture d'une enquête préliminaire sur une Autrichienne de 85 ans, Erna Wallisch, soupçonnée de meurtre alors qu'elle était gardienne au camp de concentration nazi de Maidanek (Pologne). more...

29.01.2008 ynet.co.il
אוסטריה חוקרת קשישה על פשעים שביצעה בשואה
אוסטריה חוקרת קשישה על פשעים שביצעה בשואה
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29.01.2008 pr-inside.com
Austria examines new evidence against former Nazi guard
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Austrian prosecutors are examining new evidence against a former Nazi concentration camp guard living in Vienna, officials said Tuesday. more...

29.01.2008 wienerzeitung.at
New evidence against alleged camp guard revealed
Austria looks set to agree to reopen the case of a suspected Nazi criminal who served as a guard at the Majdanek concentration camp, the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center has announced. more...

29.01.2008 washingtonpost.com
Vienna investigates 85-year-old Nazi camp suspect
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian authorities are investigating an 85-year-old woman suspected of murder in a Nazi concentration camp during World War Two. more...

29.01.2008 20min.ch
Nazi-Sadistin kommt vor Gericht
Seit Jahren lebt sie unbehelligt in Wien Donaustadt, sogar ihr richtiger Name steht auf dem Türschild. Dabei steht die KZ-Aufseherin Erna Wallisch auf der Liste der gesuchten Nazis auf Platz vier. Jetzt wird ihr Fall neu aufgerollt. more...

29.01.2008 bild.t-online.de
War sie Hitlers gnadenlose KZ-Hexe?
Tel Aviv/Wien – Auf der Liste der schlimmsten noch lebenden Nazis steht sie auf Platz vier. more...

28.01.2008 PROFIL Online
'profil' hat neues Material: Prozess gegen KZ-Wärterin Wallisch bald neu aufgerollt?
NS-Verbrechen. Nach 35 Jahren wird das Verfahren gegen die frühere KZ-Wärterin Erna Wallisch wohl neu aufgerollt: Überlebende wollen deren Beteiligung an Massenmorden bezeugen. more...

27.01.2008 jpost.com
Austria to reopen case against Nazi concentration camp guard
In a dramatic about-face, Austrian authorities have agreed to reopen the case of a long-sought suspected Nazi criminal who served as a guard at the Majdanek concentration camp, the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center said Sunday more...

26.01.2008 welt.de
Neue Ermittlungen gegen ehemalige KZ-Aufseherin
Erna Wallisch ist 85 Jahre alt und lebt bei Wien more...

17.12.2007 sueddeutsche.de
Brauner Rosenkrieg
SS-Hauptsturmführer und Gestapo-Sekretärin - aus einer braunen Romanze ist ein Rosenkrieg zweier Greise geworden. Der SS-Offizier will das Buch seiner einstigen Geliebten verbieten lassen. Es geht um einen Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto. more...

16.12.2007 observer.guardian.co.uk
Fight for 'honour' at 92 reveals a Nazi's past
A former member of Hitler's SS has gone to court claiming his reputation has been ruined by a book - not because it exposed his part in the Holocaust but because it accused him of abandoning a woman he had an affair with when she became pregnant. more...

2.11.2007 scotsman.com
How Himmler's daughter helps Nazi death-camp guard beat justice
A SINISTER group of Nazi sympathisers is aiding a former death-camp guard, tracked down by a British historian, to avoid prosecution. more...

25.10.2007 wiltshiretimes.co.uk
How I found Nazi war criminal suspect
STANDING frail and aged at her doorstep it is difficult to believe that Erna Wallisch is ranked seventh on the blacklist of most wanted Nazi war criminals. more...

23.10.2007 dailyrecord.co.uk
Granny Aged 85 'Exposed As Nazi Camp Guard'
Expert Says Woman, 85, Is Concentration Camp Killer A GRAN has been exposed as a Nazi death camp thug. Erna Wallisch, 85, is No7 on the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's list of war criminals who are still at large. They allege that she beat women and children to death in two World War II concentration camps and helped pick victims for the gas chamber. more...

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23.10.2007 heute.at
Justiz jagt KZ-Wärterin
Paukenschlag des österreichischen Justizministeriums: Die Fahnder wollen den bereits abgeschlossenen Fall einer mutmaßlichen NS-Verbrecherin (85) aus Wien wieder aufrollen. Vorwurf der Behörden: Die Ex-Wärterin soll in zwei Konzentrationslagern in Ravensbrück (D) und Majdanek (PL) Häftlinge gequält und in die Gaskammer geschickt haben! Jetzt sucht die Justiz neue Zeugen und Spuren. more...

22.10.2007 dailymail.co.uk
Historian tracks down evil Erna the Nazi killer - a 'harmless' granny in Vienna
She seems harmless enough now, the elderly figure in a dressing gown peering round the door to her flat.
Erna Wallisch, an 85-year-old grandmother, rarely ventures out, spending her days drinking coffee and being cared for by her family. But the image she presents belies a dark past which has put her seventh on the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's list of most-wanted Nazi war criminals still at large. As a young woman during the Second World War, Mrs Wallisch inspired terror in those she helped to guard in Nazi concentration camps. more...

22.10.2007 telegraph.co.uk
Elderly woman is wanted Nazi war criminal
She looks like someone’s harmless grandmother waiting for the man to come to read the meter or repair the boiler. But this little old lady is one with a dark past and a unique claim to infamy. more...

Fall 2006 Shalom magazine
DERNIÈRE CHANCE À VARSOVIE?
Les lecteurs de SHALOM connaissent «l’Opération de la dernière chance» lancée par le Centre Simon Wiesenthal et la Fondation Targum Shlishi, dont l’objectif est de fournir un ultime et intense effort pour traduire les criminels de guerre nazis en justice, en offrant une rétribution financière pour toute information pouvant mener à l’action judiciaire et à la condamnation. more...
Fall 2006 Shalom magazine
LETZTE CHANCE IN WARSCHAU?
Die SHALOM Leserinnen und Leser sind bereits mit der «Operation: Letzte Chance» vertraut, die vom Simon Wiesenthal Center und der Targum Shlishi Foundation gestartet wurde: mit vereinten Kräften sollen Nazi-Kriegsverbrecher vor Gericht gebracht werden, indem eine finanzielle Belohnung für Informationen geboten wird, dank denen die strafrechtliche Verfolgung und Bestrafung ermöglicht wird. more...

September 2006 shalom
Last Chance in Warsaw ?

Readers of SHALOM are already acquainted with “Operation: Last Chance,” which was launched by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Targum Shlishi Foundation to maximize the efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice by offering financial rewards for information which would facilitate prosecution and punishment. more...


10.09.2006 Jerusalem Post
Polish president arrives to discuss UNIFIL

Polish President Lech Kaczynski commenced a four-day trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority Sunday that is set to include discussions on his country's UNIFIL commitments and the state of Israel-Poland ties.more...


02.04.2006 MiamiHerald.com
Israeli seeks killers of his family in Holocaust
HIBAT ZION, Israel - world 5news

It was a crime that unfolded on the sidelines of the Holocaust: Farmers in Nazi-occupied Poland murdered six members of a well-to-do Jewish family for their possessions. more...

02.04.2006 w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m
Poland to probe 1940s murder after Israeli meets alleged killer
In 1943, at the height of World War II and the systematic annihilation of European Jewry, Gitl Lerner, a 45-year-old Jewish woman, hid with five of her children in the home of a Polish farmer. The six managed to escape a transport to the Majdanek death camp and found shelter along with two Jewish youths. On the night of October 30, Polish farmers in the area stabbed Lerner and the five children to death. more...

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08.02.2006 Der Standard 
Wiesenthal Center will Auslieferung mutmaßlicher NS-Verbrecherin

Warschau - Das Simon Wiesenthal Center Jerusalem (SWC) hat das polnische Institut für das nationale Gedächtnis (IPN), das sich mit der Aufarbeitung von Verbrechen aus nationalsozialistischer und kommunistischer Zeit beschäftigt, aufgefordert, die Auslieferung von Erna Wallisch bei Österreich zu betreiben. more...


19.04.2005 dpa
Kopfgeld für Nazi-Mörder
Sie sollen ihrer Strafe nicht entgehen, auch wenn sie seit Jahrzehnten glauben, niemand erinnere sich mehr an die Vergangenheit oder an ihre Opfer. more...

14.10.2004 THE JERUSALEM POST
Polish paper nixes Nazi-hunting ad
HILARY LEILA KRIEGER
The Simon Wiesenthal Center-Israel criticized the Polish newspaper Fakt on Thursday for refusing to run an advertisement submitted as part of its campaign to track down Poles who participated in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust. more...

22.07.2004  
Simon Wisenthal Center - investigation against ten Poles
Having collected information with the special [information line] launched in Warsaw last June, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has started its own investigation regarding cases of ten Poles. The Center suspects them of taking part in murders of Jews, committed during WWII.

”Since the line was opened on June 16, tens of Poles have called” - the head of the Center's Jerusalem office Effraim Zuroff said PAP on thursday. On the basis of the information they have submitted the Center has decided to launch its own investigation regarding 10 persons; two of them turned out to be dead.more...

16.06.2004 News Bulletin of the Polish Embassy in Washington
Wiesenthal Centre opens collaborator infoline
Only reporters have to date made use of an infoline gathering information about Polish Nazi collaborators and participants in Jewish pogroms opened Wednesday by the Jerusalem- based Simon Wiesenthal centre. Information transmitted via such lines will be analyzed in Jerusalem, and transferred to the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). more...
16.06.2004 Warsaw Business Journal
Warsaw Business Journal
The Szymon Wiesenthal Center, which has been pursuing nazi's, their collaborators and World War II criminals, is about to launch a new initiative. more...

16.06.2004 KURIER - Wien
"Kopfgeld" für NS-Kollaborateure
Irritation in Polen: Eine Telefon-Hotline nimmt Hinweise auf Kollaborateure im Zweiten Weltkrieg und Kriegsverbrecher entgegen. more...

16.06.2004 w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m
Money reward in hunt for Nazis stirs criticism in Poland
By The Associated Press
The Simon Wiesenthal Center on Wednesday launched a drive to track down remaining Nazi war criminals in Poland by offering a $12,000 reward for information leading to their prosecution, drawing criticism from prominent Polish figures. more...
16.06.2004 BBC News Online
Holocaust hotline anger in Poland
By Marek Bekerman
An international organisation dedicated to hunting down Holocaust war criminals has opened a telephone hotline for potential informants in Poland.more...

8.09.2003  
Nazi hunt expands to more countries
By ELINOR J. BRECHER
The first phase of Operation: Last Chance, a Simon Wiesenthal Center Nazi-hunting venture in the Baltics, was so successful, according to the Golden Beach investment manager who financed it, that it's being expanded to other countries. more...