Efraim Zuroff

The Babyn Yar killing site in Kyiv, Ukraine is made up of dozens of ravines and ditches where the German occupation forces and their allies killed tens of thousands of Jews and non-Jews in September 1941. (Courtesy of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center.)

80 years after Babyn Yar Holocaust massacre, a German lawyer seeks trial for last living alleged perpetrator

Nonagenarian Herbert Waller is believed to be among the hundreds of murderers who never had to answer for committing the largest single massacre of the Nazi genocide.

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 30, 2021 5:52 pm

A judicial officer looks at his watch prior to a trial against 96-year-old alleged war criminal Irmgard Furchner in Itzehoe, Germany, on Sept. 30, 2021. (Markus Schreiber/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Alleged Nazi-era war criminal, 96, caught in Germany after skipping trial

A former secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp, Irmgard Furchner left her nursing home in a taxi and failed to appear on time in court.

September 30, 2021 6:29 am

Joel Lion, Israel's ambassador to Ukraine, left and other dignitaries commemorating the Holocaust at the Ukrainian Parliament on Jan. 16, 2020. (The Assembly of Nationalities of Ukraine)

Ukrainian senior academic proposes to rename city of Uman for Nazi collaborator

The pilgrimage destination should be called “Bandera City,” Bohdan Bilinsky suggested after Israel’s ambassador protested a stadium being named for another alleged war criminal.

March 12, 2021 12:17 pm