
Efraim Zuroff, IMPORTANCE OF THE POST-HOLOCAUST JUSTICE IN THE EAST EUROPE AFTER THE FALL OF COMMUNISM
Simon Wiesenthal Center, Jerusalem IMPORTANCE OF THE POST-HOLOCAUST JUSTICE IN THE EAST EUROPE AFTER THE FALL OF COMMUNISM The lecture will deal with the significance of prosecuting Nazi war criminals and collaborators in post-Communist Europe. It will describe the unique aspects of the collaboration with the Third Reich in the countries which were part of the Soviet Union or under Communist rule from the end of World War II until 1989, emphasizing the lethal nature of such collaboration, which unlike the situation elsewhere in Europe, included active participation in mass murder. Bringing these war criminals to justice has proven to be one of the most difficult, if not the most difficult, of the six










