17,04,2004 As people all over the world commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah), and in the final phase of the hunt for Nazi war criminals, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is releasing its 2004 Annual Status Report: Worldwide Investigation & Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals, which provides an update on the current worldwide efforts to bring Holocaust perpetrators to justice. This year’s report highlights the United States as the country with the most outstanding record in bringing Nazi war criminals to justice while at the same time citing Romania for its total failure in addressing the issue of Holocaust perpetrators. And, Sweden and Norway are named because of their continued in-principle refusal to investigate Nazi war criminals due to existing statutes of limitation. The 2004 Annual Status Report shows that new investigations were initiated against at least 166 suspected Holocaust perpetrators (an increase of 20% from the previous year) and currently there are ongoing investigations against more than 580 suspected Nazi war criminals all over the world (an increase of about 19% from last year), with the largest number of cases being investigated in the United States (285), Canada (194), Germany (35) and Austria (27). With much work still to be done, the Center’s publication of the Report is part of its ongoing responsibility to see that as many as possible will be held accountable for the crimes committed during the Holocaust.
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