Word: efraim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIMOTHY PASTUCK 49, NEW YORK CITY: Limo driver Awakened by Melida Menzies' distraught daughter, Pastuck called 911 and ran to his neighbor's apartment to find what he described as a slaughterhouse: Menzies' boyfriend Efraim Correa beating her with a baseball bat. Pastuck rushed to get his rifle. When he returned, he said, he ordered Correa to stop, and shot him when Correa refused. Menzies, badly bruised, has thanked Pastuck, and authorities have dropped gun charges against him. The injured Correa faces attempted-murder charges...
...most wanted" -- or at least most immediately wanted -- of the hundreds of war criminals still unaccounted for is the real "Ivan the Terrible," now thought to be a Ukrainian named Ivan Marchenko, who would be 82 today. He was last sighted leaving a brothel in Croatia in 1945. Says Efraim Zuroff, the Wiesenthal Center's chief sleuth in Jerusalem: "The problem is that Yugoslavia ((today)) is a hard place to look for anybody...
Nazi hunters expect any outcome to be bad news for them. The case, says Efraim Zuroff, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's coordinator of Nazi war-crimes research, has seriously challenged the testimonial value of Holocaust survivors and made it "incredibly difficult" to press for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals worldwide. He insists the Wiesenthal Center will not lessen its efforts to bring these criminals to justice. But he will not say whether the organization has made any effort to find Marchenko, the true beast, it would seem, of Treblinka. Marchenko, who was born in 1911, could well be dead...