Tuviah Friedman

Tuviah Friedman was a Nazi hunter and director of the Institute for the Documentation of Nazi War Crimes in Haifa, Israel.

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Nazi hunter - Nazi - War Crimes - Haifa - Israel

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Friedman was born in Poland. During the war he has been imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp near Radom, from where he escaped in 1944. In 1945 he was appointed an interrogation officer in Danzig jail. According to his own memoirs, he relished in beating the Nazis there with a whip, as they had done to him earlier.

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Poland - Radom - Danzig

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From 1946 to 1952 he worked for Hagana in Austria, where he and his colleagues hunted down numerous Nazis. Afterwards, in Israel, he played a role in the capture of Adolf Eichmann.

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Hagana - Israel - Adolf Eichmann

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The "Special collections" section at the Simon Wiesenthal Center contains numerous dossiers on various Nazis, collected by Friedman, as well as his memoirs and even his harsh critique of Simon Wiesenthal.http://motlc.specialcol.wiesenthal.com

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Simon Wiesenthal Center - Simon Wiesenthal

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