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Tuviah Friedman
__NOTOC__ Tuviah Friedman (23 January 1922 – 13 January 2011) was a Nazi hunter and director of the Institute for the Documentation of Nazism, Nazi War Crimes in Haifa, Israel. Friedman was born in Radom, Poland, in 1922. During World War II he was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp near Radom, from which he escaped in 1944. The following year he was appointed an interrogation officer in the Gdańsk jail. From 1946 to 1952 he worked for Haganah Wien in Austria, as Director of Staff of the Documentation Center in Vienna, where he and his colleagues hunted down numerous Nazis. Afterwards, in Israel, he played a role in the capture of Adolf Eichmann. Papers Friedman's autobiography is titled ''The Hunter''. The archives at Yad Vashem in Israel contain dossiers on various Nazis, collected by Friedman. See also * Serge and Beate Klarsfeld * Yaron Svoray * Elliot Welles * Simon Wiesenthal * Efraim Zuroff References External linksGuide to the Papers of Tuviah Friedman (RG 1196) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radom, Poland
Radom is a city in east-central Poland, located approximately south of the capital, Warsaw. It is situated on the Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), having previously been the seat of a separate Radom Voivodeship (1975–1998). Radom is the List of cities and towns in Poland, fourteenth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in its province with a population of 206,946 as of 2021. For centuries, Radom was part of the Sandomierz Voivodeship, Sandomierz Province of the Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569), Kingdom of Poland and the later Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Despite being part of the Masovian Voivodeship, the city historically belongs to Lesser Poland. It was a significant center of administration, having served as seat of the Crown Council which ratified the Pact of Vilnius and Radom between Lithuania and Poland in 1401. The Nihil novi and Łaski's Statute were adopted by the Sejm at Radom's Royal Castle in 1505. In 1976, it was a center of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
