“Last Chance” is what the Simon Wiesenthal Center is calling its latest, and possibly last drive to locate and capture Nazi war criminals who were involved in the slaughter of six million Jews during World War II.
The center, headed by Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff, is offering 15,000 Euros for information leading to the capture of Nazi war criminals, before the opportunity to bring the aging murderers to justice loses out to the ravages of time.
Last week, the center announced that it had new, substantive information regarding 15 persons who had participated in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust. The Romanian government has already started investigation four of the new files.
Zuroff noted that since the fall of communism in Romania in 1989, not one Nazi living in or taking up refuge in that country has been prosecuted, perhaps because of the government’s denials that its citizens had been involved in war crimes during World War II.
Recently though, after setting up a government committee to investigate the issue, the Romanian government took responsibility and apologized for the involvement of Romanians in Nazi war crimes. The government’s pronouncement raised hopes that war criminals living in Romania will finally be brought to justice.
The center, headed by Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff, is offering 15,000 Euros for information leading to the capture of Nazi war criminals, before the opportunity to bring the aging murderers to justice loses out to the ravages of time.
Last week, the center announced that it had new, substantive information regarding 15 persons who had participated in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust. The Romanian government has already started investigation four of the new files.
Zuroff noted that since the fall of communism in Romania in 1989, not one Nazi living in or taking up refuge in that country has been prosecuted, perhaps because of the government’s denials that its citizens had been involved in war crimes during World War II.
Recently though, after setting up a government committee to investigate the issue, the Romanian government took responsibility and apologized for the involvement of Romanians in Nazi war crimes. The government’s pronouncement raised hopes that war criminals living in Romania will finally be brought to justice.