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January 18, 2005
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An Australian of Hungarian origin was accused by the Simon Wiesenthal Center of war crimes. The center has advised the Australian and Hungarian governments that Charles Zentai is alleged to have committed the crime in Budapest in 1944. Center officials say Zentai beat a young Jewish man to death in his Budapest army barracks in 1944 after seizing him because he was not wearing the mandatory yellow Star of David.

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