SS guard Bruno Dey was judged, found guilty, sentenced, and... released, so what's the point of the trial? more...

An important but imprecise book about how the narrative of the Holocaust is being rewritten more...

Halina Strnad's testimony could help finally convict Bruno Dey, a guard at the horrific Stutthof camp, of accessory to murder more...

Proposed legislation would whitewash the extent to which Lithuanians helped Nazis murder 90% of their country's 220,000 Jews more...

There was a time, during the interwar period, when Lithuania was independent (1918-1940), that it could be said that the cities of Jerusalem and Panevežys were closely linked. That was of course due to the important status of the local yeshiva in the heart of the Lithuanian city, which had been established by Rabbi Yitzhak Yaakov Rabinovich in 1908 more...

Holocaust distortion is so prevalent in Lithuania, which has initiated and led many of the initiatives in Eastern Europe to rewrite the narrative of World War II and the Holocaust more...

When a neo-Nazi Holocaust denier sets out to murder Jews in Germany on Yom Kippur, the belated trial of Stutthof Nazi Bruno Dey takes on new importance more...

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s trip to Ukraine early last week is yet another opportunity to assess Israel’s relations with the post-Communist new democracies of Eastern Europe, and especially those with a Holocaust past of participation in the systematic mass murder of Jews more...

Red-carpet treatment for Croatia's president, whose approach to past war crimes is at best ambivalent, is an affront to victims of former Nazi collaborators more...

Old age should not protect individuals who committed heinous crimes -- they are as guilty today as they were then more...

History is not only about the past, but a critical subject for the present and future more...

It now appears that there is a serious chance that the Lithuanian authorities will be finally be challenged regarding their systematic Holocaust distortion more...

Researchers may have to investigate the archives for several years before coming to any conclusions more...

Eastern European countries are systematically rewriting the narrative of WWII and the slaughter of European Jewry more...

There are several factors that help explain why the prosecution of Nazis is still ongoing more...

Only those individuals tried and found guilty in their lifetimes may be considered guilty, all others are considered to be completely innocent more...

Growing up in Apartheid South Africa, “Blood River Day” (or Dingaan’s Day) was a primary national holiday more...

During the Nazi occupation of 1941-44, the order in Lithuania was so efficient, that there were almost no Germans in the local administration or police more...

For the second time in three years, the Lithuanian authorities find themselves in a serious dilemma on Holocaust Memorial Day more...

Thompson is notorious for his ultra nationalist lyrics and his glorification of Croatia’s notorious genocidal World War II Ustasha regime more...

Top Nazi-hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center reflects on the death of the ‘bookkeeper of Auschwitz’ this week more...

En junio de 1981, varios meses después de haber comenzado a trabajar como investigador en Israel para la Oficina de Investigaciones Especiales (OSI) del Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos, la que fuera establecida en 1979 para enjuiciar a los criminales de guerra nazis y colaboradores que habían emigrado a América, Jerusalén fue la sede del Primer Encuentro Mundial de Sobrevivientes Judíos del Holocausto more...

Germany has undergone a dramatic change in its prosecution policy more...

Newly released information by the Mossad sheds light on the agency’s unsuccessful attempts to catch Nazi war criminals between the ’60s and ’90s more...

The betrayal of the Czechs to appease Hitler was a clear sign that the British and French were unwilling to oppose Hitler by force more...

Among the victims were 512 men, 744 women and 511 children, who were buried in a grave some 20-meters long and 2-meters wide more...

The biblical book of Proverbs (Mishlei) instructs us "Do not be happy when your enemy falls, and do not rejoice when he fails" (Chapter 24, verse 17).
But it was hard to resist a sense of joy and satisfaction, when the news was publicised early this week that Ernst Zundel, one of the most prolific and persistent Holocaust deniers, had died in Germany at the age of 78. more...

If one compares the biographic profile of the Nazi war criminals who emigrated to Canada with those who entered the US, their wartime service was virtually the same more...

Helmut Oberlander has been stripped of his Canadian citizenship for a fourth time and has stated his intent to appeal the decision more...

Under these circumstances, the validity of such trials can be questioned more...

The average normal person would probably read about the death of a 95-year-old Auschwitz guard and think "good riddance, what a shame he lived so long." more...

KIEV, Ukraine — Last September, I stood at the 75th-anniversary commemorations at Babi Yar — a mass grave where more than 33,000 Jews from Kiev were massacred in two days during the Holocaust — listening to President Petro Poroshenko deliver a stirring speech about why such atrocities must never be repeated more...

Со времени развала Советского Союза чуть более четверти века назад, роль местных нацистских коллаборантов в преступлениях Холокоста была костью раздора по всей Восточной Европе more...

Во влиятельной газете «The Jerusalem Post» вышла разгромная статья, изобличающая ложь и манипуляции Владимира Вятровича и Украинского института национальной памяти more...

The current conflict with Russia has further radicalized the Ukrainian approach to historical memory more...

It’s not every day that Lithuanian high school students block the entrance to their school to keep out their principal and demand the return to work of a beloved teacher who, in their opinion, was unfairly dismissed more...

When Oskar Groening's appeal was rejected,the decision paved the way for additional prosecutions of any person still unpunished who served in the Nazis’ six death camps more...

In all these cases, the government continues to fail to perform one of its most elementary duties: to respect the victims of the Holocaust in Lithuania, many of whom were murdered by Lithuanians more...

This summer and autumn, we mark the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the systematic murder of European Jewry by the Nazis and their local collaborators in the areas which were then part of the Soviet Union more...

(JTA) — Residents of Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania’s capital, had their pick of two events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Holocaust held this year on Sept. 23, their country’s official Shoah memorial day more...

The project is based on the fact that there are 227 Holocaust mass murder sites in Lithuania scattered all across the country more...

For most Americans, “Cold War” is an answer to a multiple choice question on a history test. For the older among us, we remain grateful that Mikhail Gorbachev responded positively to Ronald Reagan’s gutsy call: “Tear down this (Berlin) Wall”! more...

Praėjusią savaitę Molėtuose buvo atidengtas paminklas Holokausto aukoms atminti. Į renginį suvažiavo daugybė žmonių iš įvairių šalies vietų more...

That’s what I want to tell everyone who the last three months have tactfully asked this of my friends and relatives. I am not Jewish at all, I don’t have a drop of Jewish blood. So why is he casting his lot with those Jews, what wild insect bit him? That’s another question heard often more...

Let us all hope that the new spirit on display in Moletai will mark the beginning of a new era in Lithuania more...

The new German prosecution policy is a far better reflection of the reality of the crimes committed by the Nazis during World War II than previous iterations more...

Recently, members of the Vilnius City Street, Monument and Plaque Names Commission considered several different issues more...

Croatia is a nation that has been bathed in blood during numerous conflicts, as the victim of the odious Serbian aggression during the recent civil war, and for its football team proudly wearing the red and white checkered reproduction of the national flag. more...

Sir Richard Evans provides an unequivocal defense of the historical uniqueness of the Holocaust, an assertion which has increasingly come under attack in recent years. more...

Why should the casual observer care about the seemingly obvious need to prosecute and convict Nazi war criminals, whether it be during the Nuremberg trials of the 1940s or similar proceedings in more recent years? more...

Unless the government starts actively and unequivocally fighting against Ustasha nostalgia, and rising neo-fascism and anti-Semitism, it looks like the situation in Croatia will only get worse more...

If the prime minister and/or other ministers would have clearly denounced the disgusting behavior of the Croatian fans after the match, the damage done would have been mitigated somewhat more...

The time has come for the new democracies of Eastern Europe to start facing the historical truth more...

There is nothing banal about the evil that these old men did. Without them, the Nazi extermination machine would not have functioned more...

Karl du Fresne's recent op-ed (What is gained from convicting elderly Nazis?, February 19) is hardly pleasant reading for a person like myself who has devoted the last 35 years to facilitating the prosecution of Nazi war criminals, but he does raise several legitimate points that deserve to be answered more...

Since 2001, Germany has convicted all of six defendants accused of Nazi crimes. This year, however, now that the prosecutor's office in Germany has determined that four Germans (three men and a woman) served in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, it's possible we will see a new conviction record. What is behind this sudden surge in indictments in Germany, when 70 years have already passed since the end of World War II and every defendant is over 90 years old? more...

Until now, the glorification of the Lithuanian heroes who had played a role in Holocaust crimes was only one of several themes featured at the marches. more...

Od avgusta 1941. do maja 1942. ubijeno je 14.500 od približno 16.000 Jevreja koliko je živelo u Srbiji * Pokušaji da se opere uloga onih koji su aktivno omogućili i/ili učestvovali u uništavanju Jevreja je posebno sramna * Nedićeva rehabilitacija bi bila uvreda za žrtve nacista . more...

Last week Israelis who hail from Lithuania gathered at Yad Vashem to commemorate the annihilation of their communities during the Holocaust. more...

The Lithuanian government ties to minimize the highly significant role of local Nazi collaborators in Holocaust crimes. more...

If anyone needed a reminder about how critical it is these days to expedite the pending cases of Nazi war criminals, we received two such urgent messages late last month. more...

Efraim Zuroff will nicht noch mehr Listen, sondern Strafverfolgung von NS-Verbrechern. more...

Kiev has now handed the Kremlin "evidence" for Putin’s claim that Russia is facing off against fascists. more...

This month, on the seventieth anniversary of the defeat of Hitler’s Nazi regime and the end of World War II — ipso facto the end of the Holocaust — Western leaders have been faced with a symbological conundrum. more...

In an op-ed recently published in The Jerusalem Post (“The irony of Lord Janner’s escape from trial” – April 27, 2015), former editor in- chief Jeff Barak linked two legal cases which ostensibly have no connection but relate to Jewish issues, and drew some disturbing and highly questionable conclusions. more...

Der Prozess gegen den früheren SS-Mann Oskar Gröning, der in dieser Woche in Lüneburg eröffnet wurde, stellt ein Novum dar. Zum ersten Mal seit dem Urteil gegen John Demjanjuk, einen Wachmann des KZ Sobibor, 2011 in München, wird hier jemand genau deswegen angeklagt, weil er Dienst geleistet hat in einem NS-Todeslager oder in einer der Einsatzgruppen, die mehr als eine Million Juden in der Sowjetunion ermordet haben. more...

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...

Two months ago, as Israelis were deciding for whom to vote during a bitter election campaign, nationalist and anti-Semitic demonstrators marched proudly through the streets in the heart of Baltic capitals. more...

Hostility to minorities and attempts to rewrite Holocaust history in Baltics - but no one cares, except Russia. more...

The announcement that the Simon Wiesenthal Center has submitted the names of 80 of the youngest men and women who served in the infamous Einsatzgruppen to the German authorities was not purposely planned for the period between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. more...

The good news since the end of World War II is that, so far, the Holocaust has not been repeated, although unfortunately many other terrible events have occurred. more...

Late last week Spanish fashion giant Zara created another scandal related to the memory of the Holocaust. In 2007, the clothing retail chain shocked many people all over the world by offering handbags with swastikas for sale, which were only removed after a public outcry that generated considerable negative publicity. more...

The arrest last week in the United States of Auschwitz guard Johann Breyer has once again focused public attention on the final efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. more...

Anyone who has followed the alarming rise of Jobbik, the Movement for a Better Hungary since its establishment in October 2003, would find the decision of the Supreme Court absolutely incomprehensible. more...

В то время, как внимание всего мира приковано к Крымcкому кризису, на улицы балтийских столиц, нынешних и довоенных, выходят ультранационалисты. Маршируя, они хотят продемонстрировать свой исключительный патриотизм и одновременно демонстрируют экстремизм, ксенофобию и опасное стремление к пересмотру признанной истории Второй мировой войны и Холокоста. more...

The end of Soviet/Communist oppression and persecution presented a wonderful opportunity for the type of meaningful Jewish life taken for granted elsewhere in the Jewish world. more...

I first started demonstrating for Jewish causes almost 50 years ago, in the mid-1960s, as a young and impressionable high school student recruited for the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry by its founder, Jacob Birnbaum. more...

Iako je pažnja svetske javnosti usredsređena na razvoj krize na Krimu, baltički ultranacionalisti izašli su na ulice aktuelnih i predratnih prestonica da bi demonstrirali svoj ekstremni patriotizam, izrazili ksenofobiju i promovisali opasnu doradu prihvaćene priče o Drugom svetskom ratu i Holokaustu. more...

Недавно произошли три события, которые отражают амбивалентность современной еврейской жизни в странах Прибалтики и, в частности, в Литве – самой большой из трех новых прибалтийских демократий. more...

March 11 is the day Lithuanian independence was restored in 1990, with the Soviet Union on the brink of collapse. more...

This morning I woke up to a brilliantly sunny day here in Vilnius, Lithuania, and for the first time I can remember, I cursed the good weather. more...

ЗАГРЕБ – Центар Симон Визентал, који се бави откривањем нацистичких злочинаца, позвао је данас хрватске власти да убрзају истрагу Осјечанина Јакоба Денцингера (90), за кога се сумња да је био чувар у нацистичком логору Аушвиц. more...

Sada hrvatsko tuæiteljstvo mora odluËiti hoÊe li samo pokrenuti postupak ili Êe Ëekati na zahtjev za izruËenjem kako bi se Ëuvaru iz konclogora sudilo u NjemaËkoj. more...

Almost a decade has passed since the historic decision by the United Nations in 2005 to designate January 27, the day of the liberation by the Soviet Red Army of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. more...

In an attempt to maintain their reputation as the most anti-Semitic major newspaper in Lithuania, the editors at Respublika have fired a new salvo in their information war against the international forces of Communist Zionism with a straw-man argument designed to rehabilitate the swastika as a Lithuanian cultural heritage symbol. more...

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban this month addressed the annual plenary of the World Jewish Congress, which was held in Budapest. more...

Next month, the fourth International Conference of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism will convene in Jerusalem under the auspices of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. more...

Listening to the heartfelt and passionate speeches by Israeli leaders and public figures about the importance of remembering the Holocaust at the various ceremonies held around the country this Yom Hashoah, one could easily get the impression that no subject, perhaps with the obvious exception of Israeli security, was of greater concern. more...

On the eve of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day in Israel, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has released its latest list of the “Most Wanted Nazi War Criminals” and the primary findings of its twelfth annual report on the “Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals.” more...

I have to admit that my initial reaction to the media revelations regarding the figures on the number of camps in the Third Reich as published in the New York Times on March 1 was one of annoying dismay. more...

On Monday, March 11, as many as several thousand Lithuanian neo-Nazis and ultra-nationalists will conduct a patriotic march in the capital of Vilnius (Vilna) to mark Lithuanian independence day. more...

Since the Holocaust, Purim and the Book of Esther cannot be taken only in the light-hearted spirit of the merriest of holidays. more...

Even passively monitoring a neo-Nazi march is hardly my idea of oneg Shabbat (rejoicing on Sabbath), but that is how I spent last Saturday afternoon in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, known to many of us as Kovno, once one of the most important centers of Jewish life and learning in Eastern Europe. more...

I have no doubt that International Holocaust Remembrance Day serves an important function, especially in countries where the subject is otherwise routinely ignored. more...

For the past eleven years, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has published an annual report on the efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice all over the world. more...

Neither me nor my wife Anita are specialist researchers of the Holocaust. more...

Leaving Israel in times of crisis is never easy, for all the obvious reasons. The natural concern over The Situation in general (Israel's geo-political situation and critical interests) and the safety of loved ones first and foremost, but not only, often make a trip abroad in the middle of a war, or even a  limited military operation, or such an operation that might escalate into a war, a very nerve-wracking experience. more...

The Holocaust in Europe has brought forth a certain number of photographs of victims of Nazism. more...

This week, one of the more shameful events in Lithuanian-Jewish relations since the Baltic republic regained independence in 1991 will be hosted in New York by the once-venerable YIVO Institute. more...

(CNN) — Durante 32 años me he involucrado activamente en los esfuerzos continuos para llevar a los nazis ante la justicia y la pregunta que comúnmente me hacen sobre la edad de los perseguidos. more...

(CNN) -- For thirty-two years I have been actively involved in the ongoing efforts to help bring Nazi war criminals to justice -- and the most common question I am asked concerns the age of the perpetrators. more...

The Kuniuchowsky collection of testimonies of Holocaust survivors from the provincial towns and villages of Lithuania first came to my attention more than 30 years ago. more...

Last week’s High Court decision was less a triumphant victory for an alleged war criminal than a sorry indictment of Australia’s senior judiciary. more...

AT the end of next week I will have spent 32 years as a "Nazi hunter" trying to facilitate the prosecution of people who in the service of Nazi Germany or in alliance with its regime engaged in persecuting and/or murdering innocent civilians categorised as "enemies" of the Third Reich. more...

Wednesday morning in Canberra the Australian High Court will announce whether Charles (Karoly) Zentai, who is accused of murdering a Jewish teenager he caught on a Budapest tram without the requisite yellow star in November 1944, can be extradited to Hungary. The decision will mark the culmination of a legal battle which has gone on for almost eight years, since I first exposed him living in Perth, Australia, in late 2004. more...

Guest columnist, Efraim Zuroff speaks about the uniquely extensive role played by Lithuanians in the mass murder of Jews. more...

Wenn wieder einmal ein greiser Nazi-Kriegsverbrecher ausfindig gemacht wird, stellt sich von Jahr zu Jahr deutlicher die Frage, ob der Aufwand, eine solche Person zu verfolgen, noch lohne – angesichts des fortgeschrittenen Alters und der oft angegriffenen Gesundheit. Diese Reaktion gab es auch, als bekannt wurde, dass das Simon Wiesenthal Center, dokumentiert von der britischen Boulevardzeitung »The Sun«, den 97-jährigen László Csatáry in Budapest aufgespürt hat. more...

Welcome to Israel, President Ader. It is indeed an auspicious occasion that has prompted your visit to Jerusalem. Raoul Wallenberg was one of the greatest of Righteous among the Nations, and it is fitting that his one-hundredth birthday will be marked at the Knesset of the Jewish State, which is now the home of so many of the Jews he helped save. more...

It is a shame that Cukurs’ many heinous crimes were never presented to a court of law, but at least he was not able to escape punishment. more...

Despite visits to Auschwitz by teams playing in the continent’s premier international competition, the venues of some of the games leave much to be desired. more...

Can Israel finally take a major active step in this direction and not squander the opportunity presented by Gauck's visit. more...

On May 17, the remains of former head of Lithuanian Provisional Government of June 1941 post Nazi invasion to be reburied in Vilnius. more...

This past year, for the first time in a decade, two trials of Nazi war criminals indicted on criminal charges – with the defendants present and in reasonable health – were concluded in two different European countries. more...

The newly elected German leader is likely to strengthen the voices that seek to de-emphasize the historical significance of the Holocaust. more...

The determination not to ignore a perpetrator of low rank — even if he wasn’t ‘Ivan the Terrible’ — reinforces the individual liability of all Nazi war criminals. more...

Der Leiter des Simon Wiesenthal Centers in Jerusalem erklärt, warum er Gauck für den falschen Bundespräsidenten hält. Es geht um dessen Deutung des Holocausts. more...

En Kiev, Odessa y Lviv, el 1 de enero, cientos de personas marcharon para conmemorar el nacimiento del héroe nacionalista ucraniano Stepan Bandera, que encabezó la Organización de Nacionalistas Ucranianos (OUN, por su sigla en inglés), que colaboró con los Nazis y participó activamente en la matanza en masa de judíos, después de la ocupación alemana de Ucrania en 1941. more...

It is time for the Israeli government and Jewish defense organizations to begin actively combating the dangerous phenomena of Holocaust distortion. more...

A service for Hitler is unthinkable. So why is the world quiet in response to a service for Ante Pavelić?
Imagine for a minute that memorial masses were held in two major cities in Germany on the anniversary of the death of Adolf Hitler. more...

Für viele Menschen ist der südamerikanische Kontinent - nicht ganz grundlos - fast gleichbedeutend mit einem Zufluchtsort nationalsozialistischer Kriegsverbrecher. In den ersten Jahren nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg flohen zahlreiche Nazis, die in der Schoah eine gewichtige Rolle spielten, nach Lateinamerika und fanden vor allem in Argentinien Zuflucht. more...

Pour beaucoup de gens, le continent sud-américain est presque devenu synonyme de criminels de guerre nazis, non sans raison. Au cours des premières années après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, un grand nombre de fugitifs nazis, qui avaient joué un rôle de premier plan dans la Shoa, ont trouvé refuge en Amérique latine, particulièrement en Argentine. more...

September 23 was the anniversary of the 1943 liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, and as it has every year since 1994, Lithuania observed Jewish Genocide Day, to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. more...

The decision by Perth Magistrate Barbara Lane on Wednesday to allow the extradition of Karoly (Charles) Zentai to Hungary to stand trial for the murder of Jewish teenager Peter Balazs in Budapest on November 8, 1944, paves the way for an unprecedented, historic victory for Holocaust justice in Australia. more...

Last chance to catch the Nazis

Death of Rojnica is a Stain on the Croatian Judiciary

DIE AFFÄRE ZENTAI

In his op-ed in yesterday's Eesti Paevaleht, Heiki Suurkask raised a very serious charge against me and made two additional accusations. He claimed that I have no empathy with the victims of Communism, that I believe in collective guilt and that I did not submit any evidence of crimes against humanity committed by Harry Mannil and Michael Gorshkow to back up my call for their prosecution by Estonia. more...

Tavaliselt võtaksin ma sellist kriitikat väga tõsiselt, kuid ma pean tunnistama, et esimene süüdistus pani mind naerma oma iroonilise ajastuse tõttu. Täpselt samal päeval, mil Suurkask avalikult süüdistas mind selles, et mul pole kaastunnet kommunismiohvrite vastu, veetsin ma enamiku oma hommikust, tegeldes delegatsiooniga Rumeenia kommunismikuritegude uurimise instituudist, kes valmistab ette kohalike kommunistlike kurjategijate süüdistusi. more...

Comment: Facing up to decades of neglect towards Holocaust survivors

"An Open Letter to Marko Perkovic"

I am probably the last person you were expecting to hear from these days, but in the wake of the controversy and polemics surrounding your recent concert in Maksimir Stadium, I thought that the best way to clarify the important issues being debated would be to turn to you directly. Before I pose my questions, I have to admit that you have inspired the love and support of Croatians all over the world, many of whom have rushed to defend you against my criticism. more..., Croatian text 1 Croatian text 2

"Half-truths and distortions of facts"

Harry Mannil presented the readers of La Nacion with a very rosy picture of his biography, one designed to convince readers that he truly was “an honorable businessman.” Unfortunately, Mannil’s version of his life is full of half-truths and distortions of the facts that he does not want Costa Ricans to know. more...

Medias verdades y distorsiones de hechos

Harry Mannil ha presentado a los lectores de La Nación una visión muy halagüeña de su biografía, una que podría convencer a los lectores de que era realmente un honrado empresario. Por desgracia, la versión que Mannil ofrece de su vida está llena de medias verdades y distorsiones de hechos que no quiere que los costarricenses conozcan. more...

Ustashe rock n' roll

Last week I was reminded once again that history does not have to repeat itself exactly to send some very nasty reminders of the past. On May 26, 1941, shortly after the fall of Yugoslavia to the Nazis and the subsequent establishment of the "Independent State of Croatia" (NDH) under the rule of the local fascist movement, the Ustashe, hundreds of students were ordered to carry out exercises at Maksimir Stadium, the largest in Croatia and the current home of soccer powerhouse Dynamo Zagreb. more...

The struggle over Estonia's history

Last weekend's large-scale riots in Estonia in which one demonstrator was killed, over 100 people were injured, and more than 1,000 detained in response to the government's decision to remove a Soviet-era monument commemorating the victory of the Red Army over Nazi Germany from downtown Tallinn to a remote location, were hardly surprising. more...

Ein Blick nach Tyrol

Warumhaben österreichische Geschichtslehrer mit einem gesunden Empfinden für Gerechtigkeit und Moral Angst davor, ihren legitimen Protest öffentlich zumachen, wenn ein ehemaliger Nazi geehrt wird? more...

DIE AFFÄRE KEPIRO

Analysis: A distinct phenomenon and a new challenge
Dr. Efraim Zuroff

Message from Novi Sad to Tzipi Livni
Dr. Efraim Zuroff

Last week I traveled to Novi Sad, Serbia to participate in a Holocaust-related memorial. Under normal circumstances, I doubt whether I would have been willing to fly to Belgrade and drive almost 100 kilometers to attend a ceremony, which takes place annually, but this year's event had special significance. more...

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...

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...

Anyone who doubted the wisdom of releasing British anti-Semite David Irving from an Austrian jail and converting the remaining two years of his original sentence for Holocaust denial to probation did not have to wait very long for proof that last week's decision by a judge in Vienna, coming in the immediate aftermath of the "denial festival" in Teheran, was at best hopelessly na ve, and at worst outrageous. more...

"I'm Disappointed With Jasenovac, But Even More With the Speech by Seks"
Dr. Efraim Zuroff

I have to admit that I was a bit nervous about coming to Jasenovac this week. It was going to be my fourth visit to the site so it was not a question of seeing this terrible place for the first time, but rather it was the occasion. This time there were very high stakes. The creation of a permanent historical exhibition was a difficult challenge with incredibly important potential. Anyone acquainted with the complex history of ex-Yugoslavia instinctively understands the problems facing such a project. more..

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..

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Wiesenthal has led the effort not only to track down but to bring to justice Nazi war criminals, and in the process has become the embodiment and personification of that lofty cause.more..

Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals
Dr. Efraim Zuroff

Slightly more than a year ago, the Simon Wiesenthal Center launched “Operation: Last Chance” in Romania at a press conference hosted by the Federation of Romanian Jewish Communities in Bucharest. Romania was the fifth country in which the project was initiated. It was started in July 2002 in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia and was expanded in the fall of 2003 to Poland, Romania and Austria. more...

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The program, initiated in 2002, was conceived and is funded by my nonprofit foundation Targum Shlishi in partnership with the Israel office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which administers the program. Dr. Efraim Zuroff, director of the Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office, and I have been asked repeatedly: What is the purpose of pursuing Nazi war criminals 58 years after the war? After all, these criminals are old and frail. We, the Jewish people, have more daunting and immediate issues with which to deal. Why bother? more...

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