Holocaust: Top 10 Most Wanted Nazi War Criminals
2015 Annual Simon Wiesenthal Center Report
Top 10 Most Wanted Nazi War Criminals
(Country of current residence precedes crimes)
- Gerhard Sommer – Germany (Italy) – massacre of hundreds of civilians in Sant'Anna di Stazzema
- Vladimir Katriuk – Canada (Belarus) – murder of Jews and non-Jews in various locations
- Alfred Stark – Germany (Greece) – murder of Italian prisoners of war in Kefalonia
- Johann Robert Riss – Germany (Italy) – murder of civilians near Padule di Fucecchio
- X – Denmark (Belarus) – murder of Jews in Bobruisk
- Y – Germany (Auschwitz) – accessory to murder of Hungarian Jews
- Z – Norway (Poland and Ukraine) – murder of Jews in various locations
- Oskar Groening – Germany (Auschwitz) – accessory to murder of Hungarian Jews
- Algimantas Dailide – Germany (Lithuania) – arrested Jews and Poles executed by Nazis and Lithuanian security police
- Helmut Oberlander – Canada (Ukraine) – served in Einstazkommando 10a (part of Einsatzgruppe D, which murdered an estimated 23,000 mostly Jewish civilians)
Names on Previous Lists
- Theodor Szehinskyj
- Soeren Kam (Died March 2015)
- Mikhail Gorshkow (Died 2013)
- Ivan (John) Kalymon (Died July 2014)
- Hans (Antanas) Lipschis
- Ladislaus Csizsik-Csatary (Died August 2013)
- Alois Brenner (Died 2010)
- Karoly (Charles) Zentai
- Klass Carel Faber (Died May 2012)
- Sándor Képíró (Died September 2011)
- Dr. Aribert Heim (Died in 1992; Evidence of Death Uncovered in September 2012)
- Milivoj Ašner (Died June 2011)
- Adolf Storms (Died June 2010)
- Peter Egner (Died January 2011)
- John Demjanjuk (Died March 2012)
- Heinrich Boere (Convicted March 2010)
- Harry Mannil (Died January 2010)
- Erna Wallisch (Died February 2008)
- Lajos Polgar (Died July 2006)
- Ladislav Nizmansky (Acquitted December 2005)
- Jack Reimer (Died August 2005)
Sources: "2015 Annual Report on the Status of Nazi War Criminals," Simon Wiesenthal Center [PDF].
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