Efraim Zuroff, born on August 5, 1948, in New York City, is an Israeli historian and Nazi hunter. He completed high school at Yeshiva University High School for Boys and earned an undergraduate degree in history with honors from Yeshiva University, after which he moved to Israel in 1970. He pursued advanced studies, obtaining an M.A. and establishing himself as a Holocaust historian, later referred to as Dr. Zuroff. Joining the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles in 1978 marked the start of his Nazi-hunting career, where he advanced to direct the organization's Israel office in Jerusalem, coordinating worldwide Nazi war crimes research and authoring the annual 'Status Report' on investigations and prosecutions of Nazi war criminals. As chief Nazi hunter for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Zuroff produces wanted lists of surviving Nazi suspects and advocates globally against unpunished war criminals and their collaborators. Zuroff's efforts have significantly impacted justice efforts, including his appointment by Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres to the joint Israeli-Lithuanian commission, which resulted in the cancellation of approximately 200 rehabilitations for Holocaust perpetrators. He exposed Hungarian war criminal Sándor Képíró in 2006, leading to a criminal investigation and trial in 2011; a libel lawsuit by Képíró against Zuroff was dismissed. Zuroff authored 'Operation Last Chance: One Man's Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice' (2009), with translations in Romanian and Croatian, and continues to combat Holocaust distortion, criticizing events like the presence of Sweden Democrats at an antisemitism conference.