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From the AJN:
Lack of political will over Polgar, says Holocaust Centre
PETER KOHNJEWISH Holocaust Museum and Research Centre president Shmuel Rosenkranz took a swipe at authorities “who lacked the political will” to prosecute Lajos Polgar, an alleged war criminal who died on Saturday.
From The Age:
War crimes suspect dies amid controversy
Chris Johnston
July 13, 2006A MELBOURNE man accused of being a Nazi-linked war criminal has died, leaving unresolved controversy surrounding the investigations into his shadowy past.
Lajos Polgar, 89, of Ferntree Gully, died suddenly on Saturday night. The exact cause is unknown but there are no suspicious circumstances.
Mr Polgar was accused of atrocities against Jews in Hungary in World War II as a high-ranking official in the notorious Arrow Cross party, a fascist organisation that helped Nazi Germany enact the Holocaust.
There’s also an in-depth feature about Zuroff & Polgar in The Age.
From the Oz:
Two tales from a nightmare
Natasha Robinson
February 17, 2006
THEY live 30 minutes’ drive from one another in suburban Melbourne. One is a Jewish refugee from the nightmare of World War II Hungary, the other a former officer of the regime that tortured her.
The story 82-year-old Susanne Nozick has to tell is the new evidence that could bring 89-year-old Lajos Polgar to a war crimes trial, 61 years after the disgraceful events she describes.
Mrs Nozick was 19 and in hiding at Budapest’s Charity Hospital, in the final months of World War II, when she was detained by soldiers and taken with her mother to the notorious House of Loyalty, the headquarters of the dreaded Hungarian fascist organisation Arrow Cross. There she was forced to watch as her mother was raped and brutally beaten.
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From The Age:
War crime suspect admits to his leading fascist role
Chris Johnston
February 16, 2006
A MELBOURNE man accused of atrocities against Jews in World War II has admitted for the first time that he was a high-ranking official in the notorious Nazi-linked Arrow Cross party.
Lajos Polgar, 89, of Ferntree Gully, has been placed under “suspicion of genocide” by the Hungarian Government over war crimes against Jews. He is also being investigated by the world’s foremost Nazi hunter, the Simon Wiesenthal centre’s Efraim Zuroff, who arrived in Melbourne last night.
Mr Polgar had consistently denied his high rank in Arrow Cross, the feared fascist party that in the final months of the war supervised the passage of 80,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz for Nazi Adolf Eichmann and massacred and tortured Jews in Budapest in 1944 and 1945.
But last night he told The Age: “Oh yes, I was a leader (of the party). Only for two months, in Budapest.”
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From the SMH:
Australian denies Nazi crimes
November 17, 2005An Australian man accused of war crimes against Jews during World War II says he has nothing to fear from an inquiry into his past in his native Hungary.
Lajos Polgar, 90, who has lived in Melbourne for more than 50 years, is accused of crimes while he was a member of the Arrow Cross, the Nazis’ Hungarian allies.
ABC Radio interviews Nazi-hunter Effraim Zuroff.
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Govt asked to investigate alleged war criminal
The World Today - Thursday, 17 November , 2005 12:50:00
Reporter: Daniel HoareELEANOR HALL: The Jerusalem-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre is calling on the Australian Government to launch its own investigation into a possible war criminal living in Melbourne.
Ninety-year-old Lajos Polgar, who has lived in Melbourne for more than 50 years, is accused of committing war crimes as a member of the Nazis’ Hungarian allies, the Arrow Cross.
Canberra ‘failing’ in hunt for Nazis
Christopher Dore
October 03, 2005
AUSTRALIA has been slammed for failing to track down and prosecute “at least several hundred” Nazi war criminals believed to have found refuge here.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which is dedicated to finding suspected World War II criminals and helping prosecute them, says Australia has failed to do enough and needs to take “additional steps, urgently”.
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From The Age:
Former PM’s family helped ‘Nazi’ youth
August 25, 2005 - 5:59AMA Hungarian man under investigation for his connections with the Nazis is a long-time friend of former prime minister Malcolm Fraser, who’s family helped him become an Australian citizen.
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