Efraim Zuroff
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Efraim Zuroff (born 1948) is an Israeli historian of American origin, who has played an important role in the efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice during the past 25 years, thereby earning the title of "the last Nazi hunter." Efraim is the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center office in Jerusalem, also coordinator of Nazi war crimes research worldwide for the Wiesenthal Center and the author of its annual (since 2001) "Status Report" on the worldwide investigation and prosecution of Nazi war criminals. He is especially notable for having been involved in the exposure, extradition to Croatia, and conviction in Zagreb of former Jasenovac commandant Dinko Šakić, who was found living in Argentina.
In 2002, together with Aryeh Rubin, the founder of the Targum Shlishi Foundation of Miami, Florida, he launched Operation Last Chance, which offers financial rewards for information which will facilitate the prosecution and punishment of Nazi war criminals. To date, the project has been initiated in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia (all in 2002); Poland, Romania, Austria (2003); Croatia, Hungary (2004) and Germany (2005). To date, it has yielded three arrest warrants, two extradition requests, and numerous criminal investigations.
References
- [The Twilight of the Nazi Hunter] by Daryl Lindsey.
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