98-year-old charged with 'unlawful execution, torture' of Jews during World War II

Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 98-year-old who features on Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center’s wanted list with war crimes, saying he had helped to deport Jews to Auschwitz in World War II.

Laszlo Csatary was found guilty in absentia in 1948 of whipping or torturing Jews and helping to deport them to the death camp while serving as police commander in the Nazi-occupied eastern Slovak city of Kosice in 1944.

The Hungarian was sentenced to death and lived on the run for decades until Hungarian authorities detained him and put him under house arrest in Budapest in July last year. He has denied any guilt.

June 18, 2013, 1:01pm / 42

The diary of war criminal Alfred Rosenberg has been recovered

The U.S. government has recovered 400 pages from the long-lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a confidante of Adolf Hitler who played a central role in the extermination of millions of Jews and others during World War II.

“The documentation is of considerable importance for the study of the Nazi era, including the history of the Holocaust,” said the assessment, prepared by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. “A cursory content analysis indicates that the material sheds new light on a number of important issues relating to the Third Reich’s policy. The diary will be an important source of information to historians that compliments, and in part contradicts, already known documentation.”

June 11, 2013, 9:56pm / 59

The apathy in the Warsaw Ghetto

June 08, 2013, 3:00pm / 386

Jews crossing the bridge between the large and small ghettos, Warsaw

June 08, 2013, 12:00pm / 106

The organized deportation of the Jews from the Polish town of Sieradz.

June 03, 2013, 3:00pm / 57