Eli Rosenbaum

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Eli Rosenbaum (born 1955 ) is the director of strategy and policy for the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section (HRSP) of the United States Department of Justice . He was also the chief counsel and chief lawyer for the World Jewish Congress .

Life

Rosenbaum studied at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with an MBA summa cum laude . He continued to study at Harvard Law School until 1980 . From 1980 to 1984 he worked as a trial attorney, and from 1988 as Principal Deputy Director for the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) of the Ministry of Justice . Since 1995 he has been director of the OSI. The OSI was founded in 1979 and the United States Department of Justice assumed authority that the investigation and prosecution of Nazi war criminals conducted, who immigrated to the United States. In March 2010, the OSI was merged with another department of the Ministry of Justice to form the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section (HRSP), with Rosenbaum as director of strategy and politics.

Rosenbaum was also a lawyer and later chief counsel and chief lawyer of the World Jewish Congress (WJC).

Waldheim affair

In 1986, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) was instrumental in investigating the past of the then Austrian presidential candidate and former Secretary General of the United Nations , Kurt Waldheim . As the Austrian Federal President already elected , Waldheim was put on the watch list in 1987, mainly at the instigation of the WJC in the USA , which meant an entry ban for him as a private person. Simon Wiesenthal , often referred to in the media as a “Nazi hunter”, took a differentiated attitude towards Waldheim and instead called for a commission of historians. This was set up by the Austrian government and came to the conclusion that Waldheim was not personally responsible for war crimes, but that he was responsible for the deportation of Greek Jews and the concealment and glossing over of his activities during the war. The approach of the WJC and Eli Rosenbaum was criticized among the Jews living in Austria as "extremely unhappy".

In 1993, Rosenbaum and William Hoffer published a book about his investigation into the Waldheim affair , in which he accused Wiesenthal of deliberately ensuring that Waldheim won the election. He also accused Wiesenthal of being incompetent and egomaniacal and of having convicted fewer than ten perpetrators instead of the 1,200 specified.

Fonts

  • Eli Rosenbaum, William Hoffer: Betrayal: The Untold Story of the Kurt Waldheim Investigation and Cover-Up . St. Martin's Press, 1993. ISBN 9780312082192

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eli Rosenbaum named director of the office of special investigations. US Department of Justice, February 10, 1995, accessed November 3, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Torben Fischer, Matthias N. Lorenz (Ed.), Lexicon of "Coping with the Past" in Germany. Debate and discourse history of National Socialism after 1945, Bielefeld 2007, p. 46ff.
  3. ↑ Alexander Schwabe: To the death of Simon Wiesenthal: The hero of life is dead. In: Spiegel Online . September 20, 2005, accessed November 3, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Rosenbaum, Eli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenbaum, Eli M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and head of agency
DATE OF BIRTH 1955