Australia, Canada Given Nazi War Criminals List

Officials at the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center said Wednesday that they have given two lists containing the names of 54 suspected Nazi war criminals to Australian and Canadian government representatives.

Efraim Zuroff, director of the Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office, turned over the lists on Monday in London at a British government-sponsored conference on Nazi war criminals, a spokeswoman for the center said.

The lists name 32 suspected war criminals believed living in Australia and 22 who are believed to be in Canada. Both lists include alleged former members of the notorious Lithuanian 12th Auxiliary Police Battalion, which carried out numerous mass murders of Jews in Lithuania and neighboring Byelorussia during World War II, the spokeswoman said.

Zuroff said that during a meeting Monday in the British Home Office, he also provided details on an additional “major suspect” known to have emigrated to Britain after the war. He did not name the suspect.