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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 596

Efraim Zuroff

From the trials of Adolf Eichmann, which will be examined in 'Eichmann -- The Devil Speaks,' the first series produced by Tadmor Entertainment and MGM (Courtesy GPO)
February 24, 2025, 1:50 am
Argentine president opening files on Nazi ‘ratlines’ that trafficked Eichmann, Mengele
Up to 10,000 Nazi war criminals fled Europe using these escape routes. Javier Milei pledges to declassify files related to how his country settled 5,000 of them
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa listens during the BRICS group of emerging economies three-day summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, August 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
November 22, 2023, 12:38 am
South Africa’s shift on Israel: From Mandela-era acceptance to ‘genocide’ allegations
Unprecedented anti-Israel statements by the African nation’s head appear to be part of a broader geopolitical shift, but the country’s Jews report feeling safe and comfortable
By Canaan Lidor
Yad Vashem chief Dani Dayan in the Hall of Names at the Jerusalem museum, undated. (Alex Kolomoisky)
September 3, 2023, 10:03 am
123 Holocaust experts: Gov’t attack on Yad Vashem chief threatens memory of 6 million
Educators from around the world voice ‘great concern’ over coalition’s ostensible effort to dismiss Dani Dayan and replace him with a political appointment
By ToI Staff
Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė's speaks at the American Jewish Committee's Global Forum event in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 11, 2023. (Courtesy of AJC)
June 12, 2023, 6:37 am
In Tel Aviv, Lithuanian PM extols Israel alliance but sidesteps Nazi collaboration
Holocaust expert calls Ingrida Šimonytė’s speech at AJC confab ‘pathetic’ for ignoring country’s role murdering Jews; Vilnius urges Israel to help Ukraine fend off Iranian drones
By Canaan Lidor
Romanian gendarmes and local collaborators deport Jews from Bricevas in 1941, with rabbi Dov Beri Yechiel at the head (public domain)
January 1, 2022, 12:35 pm
Romania’s ‘homegrown’ Holocaust: 80 years since forgotten Bogdanovka massacre
In the final days of 1941, Romanian authorities massacred 40,000 Jews in a chapter of the genocide in which 420,000 Jews were killed in ‘broad daylight’ with collaborators’ help
By Matt Lebovic
This photo was taken from the body of a dead German officer killed in Russia, showing a German firing squad shooting civilians in the back as they sit beside their own mass grave, in Babi Yar, Kiev, 1942. (AP Photo)
October 1, 2021, 12:22 pm
80 years after Babi Yar, lawyer seeks trial for last living alleged perpetrator
Case against Herbert Waller, 99, was previously dropped because he was at Ukrainian killing site as medic; lawyer isn’t buying it: ‘Why do you need paramedics in a massacre?’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: A man walks through the gate of the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp with the phrase 'Arbeit macht frei' (work sets you free) during International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Oranienburg, about 30 kilometers (18 miles), north of Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)
February 9, 2021, 10:32 pm
100-year-old former Nazi guard charged on 3,518 counts of accessory to murder
Germany alleges he worked at Sachsenhausen camp in 1942-1945 as enlisted member of Nazi Party’s paramilitary wing; despite advanced age, deemed fit to stand trial
By David Rising
Valdas Rakutis walks into the Seimas building in Vilnius, Lithuania on November 24, 2020. (Wikimedia Commons/Sofija Vytautaitė)
January 28, 2021, 5:50 pm
Jews share blame for Holocaust, Lithuanian lawmaker says on remembrance day
US ambassador issues rare rebuke of Valdas Rakutis, who chairs parliament’s commission on historical memory
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Journalist Mathew Kalman, left, interviews Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff for the 'Behind the Headlines' online video series, August 19, 2020. (Screenshot)
August 21, 2020, 4:46 pm
WATCH: Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff on pursuing Holocaust justice in Lithuania
In an online ToI interview, Zuroff talks about joining an acclaimed Lithuanian author to unearth and share a part of history many locals would prefer remain buried
By ToI Staff
Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff in his Jerusalem office, January 2018. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
August 18, 2020, 4:32 pm
Move over Pacino: Join Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff to hear true tales of justice
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By ToI Staff
Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff, right, and Lithuanian journalist Ruta Vanagaite in Jerusalem in this undated photo. (Courtesy)
August 8, 2020, 10:15 am
Nazi hunter teams up with Lithuanian journalist to investigate Holocaust crimes
Efraim Zuroff and Ruta Vanagaite chronicle a partnership and budding friendship as they seek to convince her countrymen to face a genocide perpetrated in part by their forebears
By Matthew Kalman
93-year-old former SS guard Bruno Dey pictured at the regional court in Hamburg, Germany, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. (Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa via AP)
July 23, 2020, 12:55 pm
Ex-Nazi guard, 93, found guilty of complicity in 5,230 concentration camp deaths
Bruno Dey given 2-year suspended sentence for his actions at Stutthof camp over 75 years ago; Israeli ambassador says punishment insufficient
By Agencies
A still from 'Hunters,' a new series by Amazon. (Courtesy Amazon Studios)
February 24, 2020, 3:56 pm
Amazon show’s fictional Nazi atrocities could fuel Holocaust denial, critics say
‘Hunters’ starring Al Pacino particularly slammed for scene in which Auschwitz inmates forced to kill each other in chess game; creator says show never purported to be documentary
By ToI Staff and Agencies
A still from 'Hunters,' a new series by Amazon. (Courtesy Amazon Studios)
February 21, 2020, 9:06 pm
The real stories behind ‘Hunters,’ Al Pacino’s new Nazi-hunting Amazon series
The show boasts an aesthetic that’s more comic book than history book, but its stories and plotlines are based on many true events
By Lior Zaltzman
In this May 2014 file photo, Michael Karkoc works in his yard in Minneapolis. Karkoc, a retired Minnesota carpenter whom The Associated Press exposed as a former commander of a Nazi-led unit accused of war atrocities, died December 14, 2019, according to cemetery and public records. (Richard Sennott/Star Tribune via AP)
January 22, 2020, 12:10 am
Minnesota man exposed as commander of Nazi-led unit dies
Michael Karkoc commanded a company in the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion that murdered dozens of Polish women and children in 1944, then lied to US authorities about it
By Amy Forliti, Steve Karnowski and Randy Herschaft
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