Nazi hunter Ephraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center
office in Jerusalem, says the Center has located a female former SS Nazi
guard, and is seeking survivors of the Gross-Rosen Death march for
testimony at her trial.
The guard in question marched 700 inmates of Gross-Rosen to the Bergen Belsen concentration camp.
Death marches were the forced marches of prisoners over long
distances, under unbearable conditions, during which the prisoners were
abused by their accompanying guards and often killed.
Yad Vashem says around 40,000 Jews were sent on death marches from Gross-Rosen in total.
Zuroff says the guards from Gross-Rosen treated the Jews on the march
extremely harshly with many being murdered on route. He added that the
Wiesenthal Center had recently located the SS guard, who was known to be
still living in Germany, after it posted signs around German cities
saying it was willing to pay 25,000 euro for information on Nazis. "We
received hundreds of replies," he said.
"We don’t actually bring people to court to face punishment, only
governments and government bodies can do that, our job is to support
those bodies," he explained.
He added that even though only 2% of the Holocaust's perpetrators
were still alive, "it is our obligations to the victims, their families
and for all of the Jewish people that we find these people and bring
them to judgment and at the very least expose them so that their past
catches up with them."
Any survivors of Gross-Rosen death marches to the Bergen Belsen
concentration camp are asked to contact the Simon Wiesenthal Institute
in Jerusalem.
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