The Simon Wiesenthal
Center today totally rejected the charge by parliament ombudsman
Attila Peterfalvi that “Operation: Last Chance” was
engaged in illegal activity by examining information regarding
crimes committed during the Holocaust in Hungary.
In a statement issued today in Jerusalem, the Center’s chief
Nazi-hunter Dr. Efraim Zuroff, who coordinates “Operation:
Last Chance” worldwide, termed the attempt to find a legal
basis to stop the project “a pathetic effort to use an issue
ostensibly linked to human rights to protect those who never had
any concern for the human rights of their victims.”
According to Zuroff:
“The Wiesenthal Center’s project is already operational
in eight different countries and its legality has hereto never
been challenged. Apparently there are those in Hungary who are
desperate to protect local Nazi war criminals and collaborators
who have never been held accountable for their crimes. Such an
effort only demonstrates how important the success of “Operation:
Last Chance” is for Hungarian society and its ability to
confront the complicity of Hungarians in the crimes of the Holocaust.”
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