Australian officials said they would investigate the whereabouts of 22 suspected Lithuanian Nazi war criminals who fled to Australia after World War II. The announcement came after Efraim Zuroff, the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Jerusalem office, recently gave the names of the 22 to Australia’s ambassador to Israel, Ross Burns.
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