Stephen Ankier

Dr. Ankier is a retired British PhD pre-clinical and clinical pharmacologist who worked on the discovery and development of new medicines.While on holiday in Israel during 1961, Dr. Ankier attended the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem. In the United Kingdom, he discovered the SS-trained Trawniki concentration camp guard, Alexander Huryn, and also several members of the SS-led Ukrainian Self-defence Legion (USDL) who were alleged to have been involved in war crimes. In Minneapolis, he located a former USDL commander, Michael Karkoc, and documented his wartime activities. That led to Karkoc's indictment by the Polish authorities for alleged war crimes.Dr. Ankier also worked with the BBC on the case of the Slonim Schutzmannschaft, Stanislaw Chrzanowski, who then become the first British person to be investigated by German authorities for alleged Nazi war crimes. Show less «