Jewish Nazi Hunters 2020
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2020 8:00 pm
Hunting down Nazi war criminals in the United States
By Jonathan Kirsch
Jan. 9, 2020
Jonathan Kirsch is the author of, most recently, “The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan.
Jakob (Jack) Reimer, right, arrives at court with his lawyer, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, in New York in 1998. Reimer was a Nazi mass murderer trained in Trawniki, a village in southeastern Poland, that author Debbie Cenziper describes as “one of the most diabolical operations in the Holocaust.” (AP Photo/ Mitch Jacobson)
"To tell the truth, I used to read and write German,” a 73-year-old retired potato chip salesman named Jack told a federal prosecutor at the outset of his interrogation in 1992. “Now I have forgotten.”
Jack, as we discover in “Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America” by Debbie Cenziper, was actually Jakob Reimer, one of the Nazi mass murderers trained in a village in southeastern Poland called Trawniki. The author calls it “one of the most diabolical operations in the Holocaust,” but “the Trawniki men,” too, are mostly forgotten nowadays.
Cenziper’s mission in “Citizen 865” is to restore and preserve our memory of Trawniki through her account. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on The Washington Post’s investigative team and director of investigative journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism; she’s based at Medill’s Washington campus. Cenziper brought her investigative skills to bear on the challenge of retrieving the hard facts, but she also possesses the gift of a storyteller. For that reason, “Citizen 865” is a work of nonfiction that reads like a thriller.
She shows us the human faces of the real men and women of her narrative — the victims, the survivors, the perpetrators and those who sought to bring the perpetrators to justice. Prominent among them are the lawyers, investigators and historians who refused to allow the victims to disappear into mass graves. The Office of Special Investigations (OSI), a unit of the Justice Department, took up the task in 1978, when Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman of Brooklyn “helped pass legislation that made it easier for the federal government to deport anyone found to have participated in Nazi persecution, striking down a series of exemptions long provided under immigration law.”...
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More about these Jew "Nazi hunters" here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/ ... story.html
By Jonathan Kirsch
Jan. 9, 2020
Jonathan Kirsch is the author of, most recently, “The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan.
Jakob (Jack) Reimer, right, arrives at court with his lawyer, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, in New York in 1998. Reimer was a Nazi mass murderer trained in Trawniki, a village in southeastern Poland, that author Debbie Cenziper describes as “one of the most diabolical operations in the Holocaust.” (AP Photo/ Mitch Jacobson)
"To tell the truth, I used to read and write German,” a 73-year-old retired potato chip salesman named Jack told a federal prosecutor at the outset of his interrogation in 1992. “Now I have forgotten.”
Jack, as we discover in “Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America” by Debbie Cenziper, was actually Jakob Reimer, one of the Nazi mass murderers trained in a village in southeastern Poland called Trawniki. The author calls it “one of the most diabolical operations in the Holocaust,” but “the Trawniki men,” too, are mostly forgotten nowadays.
Cenziper’s mission in “Citizen 865” is to restore and preserve our memory of Trawniki through her account. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on The Washington Post’s investigative team and director of investigative journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism; she’s based at Medill’s Washington campus. Cenziper brought her investigative skills to bear on the challenge of retrieving the hard facts, but she also possesses the gift of a storyteller. For that reason, “Citizen 865” is a work of nonfiction that reads like a thriller.
She shows us the human faces of the real men and women of her narrative — the victims, the survivors, the perpetrators and those who sought to bring the perpetrators to justice. Prominent among them are the lawyers, investigators and historians who refused to allow the victims to disappear into mass graves. The Office of Special Investigations (OSI), a unit of the Justice Department, took up the task in 1978, when Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman of Brooklyn “helped pass legislation that made it easier for the federal government to deport anyone found to have participated in Nazi persecution, striking down a series of exemptions long provided under immigration law.”...
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More about these Jew "Nazi hunters" here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/ ... story.html