Tuviah Friedman

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Tuviah Friedman was a Nazi hunter and director of the Institute for the Documentation of Nazi War Crimes in Haifa, Israel.

Friedman was born in Poland January 23, 1922. During World War II he was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp near Radom, from which he escaped in 1944. In 1945 he was appointed an interrogation officer in the Danzig jail. According to his own memoirs, he relished in beating the Nazis there with a whip, as they had done to him earlier.

From 1946 to 1952 he worked for Hagana Wien in Austria, as Director of the 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.

The "Special collections" section at the Simon Wiesenthal Center contains numerous dossiers on various Nazis, collected by Friedman, as well as his memoirs and even his harsh critique of Simon Wiesenthal.