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TUVIAH FRIEDMAN NAZIS HUNTER

Tuviah Friedman was one of the world's most famous Nazi hunters, along with Simon Wiesenthal. Friedman started relentlessly tracking down Nazi war criminals after the close of the war, driven by an unquenchable thirst for revenge after his entire family was killed in the concentration camps, and a steadfast determination to let the whole world know what happened there. He spent over 60 years going from Vienna to Haifa and all the way to Buenos Aires, ferreting out Nazis and questioning people, sometimes even resorting to torture. He garnered a wealth of evidence, and mobilized political leaders. In 1960, thanks to Friedman and on a tip from Fritz Bauer, Adolf Eichmann was captured on a Buenos Aires street. Friedman was involved in all the Nazi trials, including those for the Sobibor, Treblink and Belzec camps. But his biggest victory was blocking amnesty for Nazi criminals, so that not a single one, no matter where he lived, would be allowed to go unpunished.