I am one of those lucky people who gets up everyday with a smile on his face, knowing that’s he’s doing something important.
I am actually named after the only person on my mother’s side who was murdered in the Holocaust. When I was born, my father sent a cable to my mother’s father, who was in Europe helping the survivors, indicating that my mother had given birth to a boy. My grandfather sent back a cable saying, “Suggest: Name him Efraim.” Efraim was my grandfather’s brother who had been killed in Lithuania during the Holocaust.
The Chase Is On: Hunting Dr. Death
Each case is a different story, depending on where the people are living and where they committed their crime. I have personally gone to different countries to find these people but I don’t do that in every case.
Our operation is run exactly the opposite of regular criminal investigations and that’s because as Nazi war criminals age, time is running out. We don’t start with the crime and then try and find the person who committed it – we start with a suspect against whom there is valid evidence and indications of his or her participation.
The biggest reward is currently 310,000 Euros for information leading to the capture of Dr. Aribert Heim, also known as "Dr. Death." Heim murdered hundreds of inmates at the Austrian concentration camp, Mauthausen, by injecting phenol (gasoline) directly into the victim’s hearts.
Heim is now in his 90s. We’re hoping he’s in good shape; he was actually a professional athlete who played ice hockey in his youth. The question is not his chronological age but rather, his physical and mental state.
At one point, we were fairly convinced that he was in South America.




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Re: I Am The World's Last Nazi Hunter
By Robyn Stubbs, February 5, 2008 at 09:14This came through on the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Facebook group today; I thought I'd share:
Simon Wiesenthal's comments on receiving the US Congressional Medal of Freedom in 1980...
"My cause is justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren who will follow us. As a firm believer that each of us are accountable before our creator, I believe that when my life has ended, I shall one day be called to meet up with those who perished and they will undoubtedly ask me, 'What have you done?' At that moment, I will have the honor of stepping forward and saying to them, I have never forgotten you."
Re: I Am The World's Last Nazi Hunter
By Heather Wallace, January 19, 2008 at 13:37I interviewed Holocaust denier David Irving the week he was released from prison, which also coincided with the Holocaust Denial Conference in Iran. Although he was very cordial with me, it was the most frightening interview of my life.
When he said, "Hitler knew nothing about the Holocaust," I quickly moved on to my next question. He stopped me and repeated, "Didn't you hear me? Hitler knew nothing about the Holocaust."
One of the last things he said was that he didn't appreciate people telling him how to write his history.
My father is a historian and taught us from a young age about the evils that happened during the Holocaust. I asked him to respond to David Irving's being locked up for how he chooses to write his history. My father said that he never expected to feel sympathy for a Nazi sympathizer, but he couldn't help but do so. Here's how he put it:
"The article contributed by David Irving has caused me to view him in more sympathetic light than I thought myself capable of. Personally I would welcome the repression and restraint of racial and religious hatred 'neo-isms' which look to the past as justification for their malevolence. But, philosophically, I do not support laws which would suppress dissent or encumber research in issues which may be controversial.
As a history buff, I completely accept the fact of the Holocaust and the accuracy of the evidence of the witnesses to the Holocaust. Fortunately we still have many witnesses to the Holocaust to refute the Holocaust deniers."
Read more in, A Real Historian: http://www.orato.com/current-events/2007/01/06/real-historian
Heather Wallace
senior editor
Re: I Am The World's Last Nazi Hunter
By Paul Sullivan, January 19, 2008 at 13:29This story is a lucid testament to the value of bringing fugitive Nazis to justice. Sometimes it seems as if we're needlessly hounding these senior citizens to their graves. But time does nothing to diminish history's most terrible crime, and these old murderers need to answer for their part in it.
Paul Sullivan,
Editor-In-Chief