Tuviah friedman holocaust survivor

Tuviah Friedman devoted most of his adult life to hunting Nazis, pursuing them obsessively from his office in Haifa, Israel. In , he captured SS operative Konrad Buchmayer by infiltrating a prisoner-of-war camp, where he posed as an SS officer in a tattered uniform. But the Nazi he sought most avidly, Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann, eluded his grasp.

Tuviah Friedman (23 January – 13 January ) was a Nazi hunter and director of the Institute for the Documentation of Nazi War Crimes in Haifa, Israel.

Friedman made no bones about the motivation for his search, said The New York Times. In he claimed, erroneously, that Eichmann had been spotted in Kuwait. Friedman left hurriedly after buying a lightbulb. Once out the door, he flung the bulb to the street and spat on the shattered glass. Friedman continued his single-minded pursuit even as popular interest in capturing Nazis waned.

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. A correspondent in Argentina who was interested in the reward wrote to say that Eichmann was living in Buenos Aires under an assumed name.

Friedman, in turn, told Israeli intelligence. Commandos captured Eichmann in and brought him to Israel to stand trial. A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day — and the best features from TheWeek.