OPERATION: LAST CHANCE is a campaign to bring remaining Nazi war criminals to justice by offering financial rewards for information leading to their arrest and conviction. To date the initiative has been launched in Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Romania, Austria, Croatia, and Hungary.

Operation: Last Chance is a joint project of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Targum Shlishi Foundation.

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Summary of the Primary Findings of the Wiesenthal Center's 2012 Annual Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals (April 1, 2011-March 31, 2012)

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Full Text of Wiesenthal Center's 2011 Annual Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals April 1, 2010-March 31, 2011

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May 16, 2012 -- Do kraju sprowadzone zostanie z USA ciało proniemieckiego premiera Ambrazevičiusa. Żydzi protestują more...

May 15, 2012 -- In a letter to parliament, university's rector says political events should not take place on university grounds; it is still unclear if the rest of festivities will take place as scheduled more...

May 15, 2012 -- On May 17, the remains of former head of Lithuanian Provisional Government of June 1941 post Nazi invasion to be reburied in Vilnius more...

May 15, 2012 -- To the chagrin of Jewish groups, Lithuania commemorates the head of it's 1941 puppet regime more...

May 06, 2012 -- A friend of mine got a lifetime achievement award recently, and it got me to thinking about the Holocaust again, something that's never been completely out of my mind for the last 22 years more...

May 06, 2012 -- Many asked whether it was appropriate for German President Joachim Gauck to speak in the Netherlands on Liberation Day, which marks the end of Nazi occupation more...

May 05, 2012 -- BREDA - De Duitse president Gauck heeft zaterdagochtend tijdens de 5 mei-lezing in de Grote Kerk van Breda een moreel appel gedaan op alle Europeanen more...

May 04, 2012 -- WATERLOO — An international Nazi-hunting organization has put Helmut Oberlander of Waterloo on its list of the 10 most wanted Nazi war crimes suspects more...

May 04, 2012 -- BREDA - Actiecomité 'Gauck niet, Faber wel' mag geen krans leggen bij de koepelgevangenis in Breda ter nagedachtenis van de slachtoffers van oorlogsmidadiger Klaas Faber more...

May 03, 2012 -- RIJSWIJK (ANP) – Het Simon Wiesenthal Centrum heeft donderdag scherpe kritiek geuit op het gemeentebestuur van Vorden, waar op 4 mei ook bij 10 Duitse omgekomen soldaten wordt stilgestaan more...

May 03, 2012 -- The Simon Wiesenthal Center has lashed out at the Dutch town of Vorden which, during its annual 4 May commemoration of those who fell in World War II, plans to honour ten German soldiers who lie buried in the town more...

May 03, 2012 -- VILNIUS—In a move causing anguish and an aura of disbelief among Holocaust survivors and their families, and Lithuania’s small Jewish community, the remains of a major 1941 collaborator of Nazi rule will be re-interred this month during a series of events designed to honor him, and by extension, wider institutionalized local Nazi collaboration more...

May 03, 2012 -- Once again, the National Committee which deals with Memorial and Liberation Days, 4 and 5 May respectively in the Netherlands, has given preference to the German attitude after the war over the wishes of the families of the victims of the German SS’s murderers more...

May 02, 2012 -- De viering van Bevrijdingsdag in Breda op 5 mei wordt ontsierd door een debat over de vraag of de Duitse president Joachim Gauck eigenlijk wel bij de viering van dit feest aanwezig mag zijn more...

May 01, 2012 -- Minister Opstelten van Veiligheid en Justitie moet meer stukken over de in Groningen beruchte oorlogsmisdadiger Klaas Carel Faber openbaar maken more...

 

   

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