Operation Last Chance: One Man's Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice

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Launching Operation Last Chance in 2002, Efraim Zuroff spearheaded a vast public campaign to locate and bring to justice the worst suspected Nazi criminals before ill health or death spare them from potential punishment. Zuroff’s project yielded the names of over 520 previously unknown suspects in 24 different countries, which has led to many convictions. Combining the thrill of a detective story with the inherent poignancy of the history of World War II and its aftermath, Operation Last Chance delivers the important and moving story of one man’s heroic efforts to honor the victims of the Holocaust.

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Launching Operation Last Chance in 2002, Efraim Zuroff spearheaded a vast public campaign to locate and bring to justice the worst suspected Nazi criminals before ill health or death spare them from potential punishment. Zuroff’s project yielded the names of over 520 previously unknown suspects in 24 different countries, which has led to many convictions. Combining the thrill of a detective story with the inherent poignancy of the history of World War II and its aftermath, Operation Last Chance delivers the important and moving story of one man’s heroic efforts to honor the victims of the Holocaust.

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A grim tale of one man's dedication to a legal and moral cause and a shocking expose of the widespread indifference and even antagonism that he has encountered. Historian Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Israel, describes himself as "one-third detective, one-third historian and one-third political lobbyist, all of which combine to constitute a twenty-first-century Nazi hunter." A scholar of the Holocaust, he began doing research for the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI), which had been set up in 1979 to take legal action against Nazi war criminals living in America. During his time with the OSI, Zuroff learned of the major role played by collaborators in Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Belarus and Croatia, many of whom had escaped notice when they fled to the United States, Canada, Australia and Britain. Zuroff, who later joined the Wiesenthal Center, details his determined and often futile efforts to convince the governments in what he refers to as "Anglo-Saxon democracies" to prosecute Nazi war criminals. He reports that political will was lacking and legal actions were minimal. Political changes in eastern Europe following the breakup of the Soviet Union then led him to turn his attention to this region with the additional aims of fighting local anti-Semitism and promoting the accuracy of Holocaust accounts. The indifference he had met earlier was now combined with open antagonism, including death threats. With the financial aid of an American, Aryeh Rubin, in 2002 Zuroff launched Operation Last Chance, a campaign that offered rewards of $10,000 to anyone supplying information leading to the conviction and punishment of a Holocaustperpetrator. Acknowledging that time is no longer on his side, the author describes his dogged pursuit of those whose names the campaign has brought to his attention. That Zuroff continues his efforts is a tribute to his determination to ensure that "the Holocaust will neither be forgotten, nor ignored, nor denied, nor distorted and that the historical record of its crimes that we leave to future generations will be as accurate as humanely possible."A sobering, valuable resource for future historians.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780230617308
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publication date: 11/10/2009
  • Pages: 238
  • Sales rank: 1,047,247
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Dr. Efraim Zuroff is a historian who specializes in Holocaust history and established and directs the Israel Office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and coordinates the Center's worldwide research on Nazi war criminals. Operation Last Chance (www.operationlastchance.org) which he launched together with Aryeh Rubin and the Targum Shlishi Foundation (www.targumshlishi.org) has been active in fourteen countries on three continents. He lives with his family in Efrat, Israel.

Table of Contents

1 Milivoj Asner, A Suspected Nazi at Euro 2008 1

2 First Encounters with the Holocaust 13

3 "I Did Not Forget You" 27

4 The Office of Special Investigations and the Case of Kazys Palciauskas 35

5 The Search for Dr. Mengele and Its Unexpected Bonuses 49

6 Nazis Down Under 57

7 Nazis in Great Britain 69

8 Nazis Under the Maple Leaf 81

9 A New Office and the Fall of Communism 91

10 Lithuania: A Struggle for Justice and Truth in the Land of My Forefathers 95

11 Latvia: A Mass Murderer as a Contemporary Hero 113

12 Estonia: The Best Justice Money Can Buy 121

13 Croatia's Past and the Search for Dinko Sakic 131

14 A Historic Trial in the Land of the Ustasha 143

15 A Difficult Beginning 151

16 The She-Devil of Majdanek 161

17 Charles Zentai 173

18 Dr. Heim, The Most Wanted Nazi in the World 185

19 Kepiro: The Suspected Nazi Who Lives Opposite a Synagogue 209

20 Conclusion 221

Notes 225

Index 233

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