The Simon Wiesenthal Center's chief Nazi hunter, Dr. Efraim Zuroff, met with German Commissioner for the Fight Against Antisemitism Dr. Felix Klein, to honor Holocaust survivor Emil Farkash who was set to testify in the trial of an alleged Nazi SS guard last week.
Zuroff had made the German prosecution aware of Farkash's status as a survivor of Sachsenhausen, the concentration camp where the alleged Nazi guard is accused of serving. He was then appointed as an escort for Farkash's trip to Germany and testimony.
The two officials discussed the prosecution of members of the Eizensatzgruppen mobile killing squads, with Zuroff saying that there has been a failure to prosecute any member of this group and Klein expressing willingness to take the matter up with German legal authorities, the Weisenthal Center said.
Zurhoff said he was pleased to meet with Klein, whose efforts to combat antisemitism in Germany he found noteworthy.
"It is also very good that he acknowledged the role of the prosecution of Nazi war criminals as an important component in the fight against contemporary antisemitism," Zurhoff said.