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• Efraim Zuroff is an Israeli historian who works with the Simon Weisenthal Center to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. In early July 2008, Zuroff headed to South America to track down the Center's most wanted Nazi, Mauthausen concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim.The Jerusalem Post: Nazi hunter looking for 'Dr. Death' in S. America (July 7, 2008)

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: 1948
  2. Birthplace: New York City
  3. Residence: Israel
  4. Coordinator of Operation Last Chance
  5. Works with Simon Wiesenthal Center to track down Nazi war criminals

• Life and Career

  In 2002, Zuroff helped launch Operation Last Chance, a comprehensive program to offer rewards for the arrest of aging Nazi war criminals. Zuroff has been hunting Nazis for most of the past three decades.Der Spiegel: 60 Years after Auschwitz: The Twilight of the Nazi Hunter (January 27, 2005)

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  Simon Wiesenthal | Aribert Heim | Josef Mengele | Holocaust | Adolf Hitler

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