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Efraim Zuroff

Apr 26, 2024, 4:29 PM

Designating Srebrenica as a case of genocide will erode the significance of the very term that warns humanity about the dangers of war

Sep 28, 2023, 10:42 PM

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Daring Dani Dayan and the complicity of Lithuanians in the Holocaust

Chairman of Yad Vashem Dani Dayan at the memorial ceremony in the Ponary forest, remembering the 212,000 Lithuanian Jews brutally murdered during the Holocaust, 70,000 of them at this very site. (X, formerly Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

The locals may never own what they did, but Yad Vashem's chairman spoke truth to power, calling out their role in eliminating a vibrant Jewish world

Apr 17, 2023, 10:54 PM

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The foolish price Israel paid to restore school trips to Poland

Archaeologist Yoram Haimi talking to young people from the Dror School in Israel about his findings at the site of the former German Nazi death camp of Sobibor, in eastern Poland, on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

Will our kids really be taught the Polish government line that no Poles helped murder their Jewish neighbors?

Mar 11, 2023, 6:37 AM

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Germany should fast-track Nazi trials before the criminals all die off

Female prisoners at Ravensbrück, 1939. (Wikipedia)

Those now in their 90s and older who kept the death camps running don't deserve to pass away in tranquility

Jan 26, 2023, 11:23 PM

IHRA’s success and difficult dilemma

This week we observe International Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27, the day of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp as mandated by the United Nations in 2005. If there was initial skepticism regarding this initiative, especially in...

Dec 15, 2022, 10:49 AM

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This cog in the Nazi death machinery says she’s sorry…

Defendant Irmgard Furchner, 96 at the time, sits in the courtroom at the beginning of her trial in Itzehoe, Germany, November 9, 2021. (Christian Charisius/Pool via AP)

…but she didn’t know about the slaughter at the concentration camp where she worked. As Irmgard Furchner's trial winds down, her supposed contrition rings false

Sep 22, 2022, 3:46 PM

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When Queen Elizabeth helped us hunt Nazis

Britains's Queen Elizabeth II delivers a speech during a reception at Charlottenburg Castle, in Berlin, on May 26, 1987, marking the 750th anniversary of the City of Berlin. (AP)

The late monarch used her royal powers for justice, against strong opposition, by making it possible to prosecute war criminals who escaped to the UK

Jul 27, 2022, 4:06 PM

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5 EU countries that shouldn’t be throwing stones

The Ninth Fort of Kaunas Fortress, the memorial to the victims of Nazism, designed by sculptor A. Ambraziunas, 1984. The mass burial place of the victims of the massacres carried out in the fort is a grass field, marked by a simple yet frankly worded memorial, reading: 'This is the place where Nazis and their assistants killed about 45,000 Jews from Lithuania and other European countries,' making no mention of Lithuanian collaboration. (screenshot, YouTube)

Accusing Russia of rewriting the Holocaust for its current propaganda is fair - but not when you've always whitewashed the Holocaust for your own purposes

Jul 5, 2022, 4:19 PM

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A 101-year-old Nazi is convicted: Late justice is still justice

Defendant Josef Schuetz hides his face behind a folder as he arrives for his trial in Brandenburg an der Havel, northeastern Germany, on October 7, 2021. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)

Josef Schutze lived to hear a German judge sentence him for helping murder thousands of Sachsenhausen concentration camp inmates. That's a victory.

May 25, 2022, 1:33 PM

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Lithuanian Jews are still avoiding their country’s Holocaust distortion

Grant Gochin and Silvia Foti, June 2020. (courtesy)

What a shame that those who work to bring Lithuania's large-scale participation in Holocaust crimes to light cannot be honored by the Jewish community there

About Me

Dr. Efraim Zuroff is the chief Nazi hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the director of the Center's Israel Office and Eastern European Affairs.