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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Nazi trial warning to Hungarian far right
The trial against alleged NS war criminal Sándor Képíró began last Thursday in Budapest. Képíró reportedly participated in the massacre of over 1,000 people in Novi Sad in 1942. Writing in the left-liberal daily La Repubblica the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem hopes that the court's judgement will serve to deter other right-wing extremists: "In view of the current situation in Hungary and above all the frightening election success of the right-wing extremist party Jobbik, which pursues a patently anti-Semitic and anti-Roma policy and openly professes its sympathy and nostalgia for Hungary's fascist past during the Second world War, the Képíró trial can send an important message: anti-Semitism and xenophobia can lead to violence with terrible consequences. ... We can only hope that the justice wins out and the court not only condemns and punishes Képíró but delivers a fatal blow to the forces of intolerance, racism and anti-Semitism that threaten Hungary's democratic future."
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Efraim Zuroff on Eastern Europe and the Holocaust
In an interview with mit Johanna Adorján, Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, discusses the difficulties of tracking down the last living Nazi criminals and putting them on trial. He harshly criticises the role of the countries of Eastern Europe in the Holocaust and their treatment of this dark chapter in their past: "The Holocaust was not just the Germans against the Jews, it was Europe against the Jews. The Nazis found helpers in every European country, but in the countries of western, southern and northern Europe collaboration ended at the train stations. The Dutch police didn't kill Jews, they just put them on trains. They were killed in the East... In Lithuania 98 percent of the Jews were killed in their home villages. Only one group was transported to Auschwitz. In Estonia, Croatia and Ukraine the Germans found many people who were willing to murder Jews for them. Naturally, no one wants to hear about this in these countries. I am fighting for historic truth."
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