List of Most Wanted Nazi War Criminals according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center

Each year since 2001, Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center produces an Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals which, since at least 2005, includes a list of "most wanted" criminals.



As of 2012, the list is as follows :

• Alois Brunner (age 100 if still alive, last seen in 2001)
• László Csizsik-Csatáry (age 98): Found 2012 in Budapest
• Gerhard Sommer (age 94)
• Vladimir Katriuk (age 91)
• Károly Zentai (age 91)
• Søren Kam (age 91)
• Ivan Kalymon (age 92)
• Algimantas Dailide (age 92)
• Mikhail Gorshkow (age 90) - case dismissed due to insufficient evidence in October 2011.
• Helmut Oberlander (age 89)

Named on previous lists

• Klaas Carel Faber - listed until 2012, died in the process of extradition from Gemany to Netherlands on 24 May 2012, aged 90.
• Sándor Képíró - listed until 2011, tried and found not guilty that year. Died 3 September 2011.
• Dr. Aribert Heim (died in 1992, age 78. Listed out in September 2012 when evidence of his death was found.)
• Milivoj Ašner - listed until 2011, died 14 June 2011.
• Adolf Storms - listed until 2010, died 28 June 2010 while awaiting trial.
• Peter Egner - listed until 2010, died January 2011 while awaiting trial.
• Ivan Demjanjuk - listed until 2009, deported to Germany for trial in 2009, and was convicted in 2011 pending appeal, died 17 March 2012. Demjanjuk died before his appeal could be tried by the German Appellate Court, and as a result, his previous conviction was not upheld. A few days after his death, The German court clarified that, according to German law, Demjanjuk was "presumed innocent," that he did not have a criminal record, and that his previous interim conviction was invalidated.
• Heinrich Boere - listed until 2009, convicted 2010 and sentenced to life in prison.
• Harry Mannil - listed until 2009, cleared of charges in 2005 after four-year investigation, died 11 January 2010.
• Erna Wallisch - listed until 2007, died 21 February 2008 while under investigation.
• Lajos Polgár - listed until 2006, died 12 July 2006.
• Ladislav Niznansky - listed until 2005, tried in 2005 and acquitted by German court due to lack of reliable evidence. Died 23 December 2011.
• Jack Reimer - listed until 2005, extradition granted but died before he could be deported.