Nazi hunters of the Simon Wiesenthal Center have said that they were closer to tracking down Aribert Heim, the infamous 'Doctor Death' during the Holocaust, after finding one of his daughters and what they called "credible" information. "We have hard facts, which are credible, but have to be checked," Sergio Widder, Latin American director of the Center, told the news agency AFP. "Those who spoke to us did so in good faith, without trying to twist the information."
An Austrian doctor, Heim is wanted for killing hundreds of concentration camp victims by painful medical experiments, including performing operations without anesthesia and injecting gasoline directly into their hearts. Widder said dozens of people had come forward with information on Heim, which led the Center's investigators to a town, some 600 miles south of the Chilean capital Santiago. Efraim Zuroff, who heads the Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office, said no matter how old Heim was he had to be held accountable for his crimes. "He castrated people, he used parts of their body to decorate his office. I'm not giving out these details to emotionalize the issue, but for people to understand how important it is to catch this criminal," Zuroff said.
The investigators said they had found Heim's daughter Waltraut Boser in Puerto Montt, but had not contacted her. Now aged 60, Boser is believed to be married to a local businessman and to have lived in Chile some 30 years.