Efraim Zuroff ( born Efraim Zuroff ; born 1948 , New York ) is an Israeli historian of American origin. Head of the Jerusalem branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center . Known for vigorous search for Nazi criminals. He criticizes the Baltic countries, believing that there is a refusal to bring to trial a number of Nazis in order to undermine historical assessments of the uniqueness of the Holocaust and to promote the equivalence of Nazi and communist crimes [1] [2] [3] .
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| Date of Birth | 1948 |
| Place of Birth | New York , USA |
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Biography
Born in New York, graduated from Yeshiva University , a bachelor in history. He moved to Israel in 1970, at the Institute of Modern Jewry, Hebrew University, received a master's degree in the study of the Holocaust. He defended his dissertation on the Holocaust.
Publications
- 1994 - Occupation: Nazi-Hunter; The Continuing Search for the Perpetrators of the Holocaust : The book describes the difficulty in finding Nazi asylum seekers in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and Australia, and Zuroff’s role in the work of two organizations actively searching for these criminals, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and US Department of Justice .
- 2009 - Operation Last Chance: One Man's Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice : Tells of the campaign launched by Zuroff in 2002 to capture and hold Nazi criminals alive. The book has been translated into German, Hungarian, Serbian and Finnish.
Rewards
- In recognition of the efforts to hunt the Nazis and for the exploration of the Holocaust, Zuroff was nominated by President of Serbia Boris Tadic and members of the Serbian parliament as a candidate for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize [4] .
- On January 22, 2009, the Novi Sad City Assembly awarded Zuroff the title of Honorary Citizen of the city in recognition of his merits in the struggle for the search and punishment of Nazi criminals [5] .
- On January 15, 2010, by a decree of the President of Croatia, Stepan Mesic, Zuroff was awarded the Order of Prince Trpimir for his contribution to the fight against historical revisionism and the strengthening of the anti-fascist foundations of Croatian statehood [6] .
- On February 16, 2017, President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolic handed the Gold Medal of Merit to Dr. Efraim Zuroff [7] for his “exceptional achievements” and his “dedicated dedication to defending the truth about the suffering of Jews, as well as Serbs, Gypsies and other peoples during World War II " [8] .
Notes
- ↑ The Nazi Hunter is no longer afraid to travel to Russia // BBC Russian Service , November 1, 2007
- ↑ The Wiesenthal Center calls the Baltic states “a paradise for the surviving Nazis” // RIA Novosti , January 4, 2008
- ↑ Putin should be invited to Auschwitz (unavailable link) . i24news.tv (01/14/2015). Date of treatment January 16, 2015. Archived January 15, 2015.
- ↑ Stories of Nazi-hunting
- ↑ Zuroff Novi Sad honorary citizen , B92 (January 20, 2009). (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Odluka kojom se odlikuje Efraim Zuroff Redom kneza Trpimira s ogrlicom i danicom . Narodne novine (January 15, 2010).
- ↑ Serbian President Awards Efraim Zuroff Gold Medal
- ↑ Nazi hunter awarded gold medal by Serbian president
Links
- Simon Wisenthal Center - Efraim Zuroff profile
- Hunting Nazi Criminals; Operation: Last Chance - Interview with Efraim Zuroff
- The Twilight of the Nazi Hunter by Daryl Lindsey.
- Attempts to rewrite the history of the Holocaust cause me a lot of trouble ... // Russian magazine , March 26, 2008
- Director of the Wiesenthal Center: Independent Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have not punished a single Nazi criminal in their entire history // REGNUM , October 30, 2008
- A professional Nazi criminal hunter on the dangers of trying to rewrite history in Eastern Europe
- Fighters of Bandera exterminated tens of thousands of Jews in Lviv