The Simon Wiesenthal Center announced today that it was inaugurating a special hotline in Romania for information regarding the current whereabouts of Nazi war criminals in the framework of its “Operation: Last Chance” project which offers financial rewards of $ 10,000 for data which will facilitate the prosecution and conviction of Holocaust perpetrators.

The phone number, which will begin operating tomorrow, January 16, 2004 is as follows:

Toll-free line: 0800-800-125
Regular line: (021) 322-2884
Address for letters: Vasili Adamache 11
Sector 3
Bucharest

It will be in operation from 9 AM to 5 PM during the workweek.

Dr Efraim Zuroff will be arriving in Bucharest next week to open an exhibition on the Holocaust prepared by the Simon Wiesenthal Center which will be opened on Friday, January 23 at 12 noon in the presence of President Ion Iliescu at the National History Museum in Bucharest.