Efraim Zuroff, at The Blogs

Mar 11, 2023, 6:37 AM

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

Female prisoners at Ravensbrück, 1939. (Wikipedia)

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

Jan 26, 2023, 11:23 PM

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

Apr 12, 2022, 10:41 AM

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Today’s antisemitism, brought to you by the letters Z and V

Russian armored tanks painted with a letter 'Z.' (Twitter)

When vandalism at Lithuania's Ponar Holocaust memorial copies Russian tanks, it accuses the Jewish community of supporting Putin's invasion

Jan 27, 2022, 4:35 PM

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Holocaust distortion is the real challenge today

Eastern Europe's post-Soviet 'new democracies' have taken to falsely equating communist and Nazi regimes and denying the role they played in the genocide

Dec 12, 2021, 9:56 PM

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May you live long and be prosecuted

1944 file photo of part of the Babi Yar ravine at the outskirts of Kyev, Ukraine where the advancing Red Army unearthed the bodies of 14,000 civilians killed by fleeing Nazis, 1944. Einsatzgruppe C was responsible for one of the most notorious massacres, the shooting of nearly 34,000 at Babi Yar, a ravine northwest of the Ukrainian city of Kiev, on Sept. 29-30, 1941. (AP Photo, file)

At 100, Herbert Wahler has outlived other Germans listed as members of the genocidal Einsatzgruppe C. His age should not shield him from accountability.

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.