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Holocaust: Top 10 Most Wanted Nazi War Criminals

2015 Annual Simon Wiesenthal Center Report

Top 10 Most Wanted Nazi War Criminals

(Country of current residence precedes crimes)

  1. Gerhard Sommer – Germany (Italy) – massacre of hundreds of civilians in Sant'Anna di Stazzema
  2. Vladimir Katriuk – Canada (Belarus) – murder of Jews and non-Jews in various locations
  3. Alfred Stark – Germany (Greece) – murder of Italian prisoners of war in Kefalonia
  4. Johann Robert Riss – Germany (Italy) – murder of civilians near Padule di Fucecchio
  5. X – Denmark (Belarus) – murder of Jews in Bobruisk
  6. Y – Germany (Auschwitz) – accessory to murder of Hungarian Jews
  7. Z – Norway (Poland and Ukraine) – murder of Jews in various locations
  8. Oskar Groening – Germany (Auschwitz) – accessory to murder of Hungarian Jews
  9. Algimantas Dailide – Germany (Lithuania) – arrested Jews and Poles executed by Nazis and Lithuanian security police
  10. Helmut Oberlander – Canada (Ukraine) – served in Einstazkommando 10a (part of Einsatzgruppe D, which murdered an estimated 23,000 mostly Jewish civilians)

Names on Previous Lists

  • Theodor Szehinskyj
  • Soeren Kam (Died March 2015)
  • Mikhail Gorshkow (Died 2013)
  • Ivan (John) Kalymon (Died July 2014)
  • Hans (Antanas) Lipschis
  • Ladislaus Csizsik-Csatary (Died August 2013)
  • Alois Brenner (Died 2010)
  • Karoly (Charles) Zentai
  • Klass Carel Faber (Died May 2012)
  • Sándor Képíró (Died September 2011)
  • Dr. Aribert Heim (Died in 1992; Evidence of Death Uncovered in September 2012)
  • Milivoj Ašner (Died June 2011)
  • Adolf Storms (Died June 2010)
  • Peter Egner (Died January 2011)
  • John Demjanjuk (Died March 2012)
  • Heinrich Boere (Convicted March 2010)
  • Harry Mannil (Died January 2010)
  • Erna Wallisch (Died February 2008)
  • Lajos Polgar (Died July 2006)
  • Ladislav Nizmansky (Acquitted December 2005)
  • Jack Reimer (Died August 2005)

Sources: "2015 Annual Report on the Status of Nazi War Criminals," Simon Wiesenthal Center [PDF].