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This is a list of the last surviving people suspected of participation in Nazi war crimes, based on wanted lists published by Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Beginning in 2002, Zuroff produced an Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi war criminals which from 2004 to 2018 included a list of the ...
On 1 April 1938, almost immediately after the Anschluss (the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, in mid-March 1938), Fritz Löhner-Beda was arrested and deported to the Dachau concentration camp. On 23 September 1938 he was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp.On 17 October 1942 Löhner-Beda was deported to the Monowitz ...
The people on this list are or were survivors of Nazi Germany's attempt to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe before and during World War II. A state-enforced persecution of Jewish people in Nazi-controlled Europe lasted from the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 to Hitler's defeat in 1945.
In just five years, over one million people were murdered at Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest Nazi concentration camp. Auschwitz was established in 1940 and located in the suburbs of Oswiecim ...
Of the five identifiable steps by which the Nazis carried out the principle of "life unworthy of life," coercive sterilization was the first. There followed the killing of "impaired" children in hospitals; and then the killing of "impaired" adults, mostly collected from mental hospitals, in centers especially equipped with carbon monoxide gas.
Cause of death Hana Brady: 1931–1944: Czech: Portrayed in Hana's Suitcase: A True Story: Jewish: Gassed at Auschwitz concentration camp: René Blum: 1878–1942: French: Founder of the Ballet de l'Opéra à Monte Carlo: Jewish: Murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp: Arthur Bergen: 1875–1943: Austrian: Actor, director Jewish: Auschwitz ...
Female Nazi concentration camp guard / Germany United States: 1973 West Germany: First Nazi to be deported from the United States; denaturalized and extradited at West German government's request [19] Joe Cahill: Prominent Irish republican and former Chief of Staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army Ireland: 1984 Ireland: Illegal entry ...
A Holocaust survivor displaying his arm tattoo. Identification of inmates in Nazi concentration camps (operated by Nazi Germany in its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe) was performed mostly with identification numbers marked on clothing, or later, tattooed on the skin.