Tuviah Friedman
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1922 – 2011
Who was Tuviah Friedman?
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 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 Danzig 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.
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- Born
- Jan 23, 1922
Radom - Also known as
- Tuviah Samuel Friedman
- Spouses
- Nationality
- Poland
- Profession
- Died
- Jan 13, 2011
Haifa
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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