Three Jewish brothers have gone on a mission for answers after suspecting that their father may have murdered Nazis during and after World War Two.
Jack, Sam and Rabbi Jon Green have long suspected that their father, Boris Green, might have been responsible for the death of Nazis in Australia after the family fled there to escape the trauma of the war.
In an episode of BBC 4's Storyville, Revenge: Our Dad the Nazi Killer the three brothers found out that their father had founded a Jewish partisan group dubbed Nekoma (revenge), which may have been responsible for the deaths of Nazis in Australia.
Speaking to GB News Breakfast Jack said: "There's a lot of circumstantial evidence. As my brother Sam said in the film, there was a war after the war.
Jack, Sam and Rabbi Jon Green have long suspected that their father, Boris Green, might have been responsible for the death of Nazis in Australia
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"Jack and my experiences were very different. We're 15 years apart in age he is 15 years older."
Jack added: "It became quite a shock to me when I heard this family story that he'd possibly been involved with some action against Nazi collaborators who would also come to Australia after the war. "
The pair explained that their father was rather a "tight-lipped" man who was "warm and gentle" and it was a surprise when the new information about him came to light.
Rabbi Jon said: "We grew up in a home that was a gathering place for survivors, and my dad in the local community was something of a hero.
"They knew that he had fought back, that he'd been awarded medals by the Soviets for bravery, and they would invite him to speak every Holocaust Memorial Day.
They described their father Boris Greineman as a "warm and gentle" man
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"He wrote a lot about his experiences in the Yiddish paper. I learned to read Yiddish. I saw his picture in the paper and I overheard conversations about Nazis in Australia as a child , they would close the door and they would sit in the next room. We also had amongst the survivors, fairly famous people coming to visit us in Melbourne,
"He made very successful efforts in covering his tracks and there's no conclusive proof, I have no doubt personally that he was involved in knocking off Nazis during the war, right after the war."
"He went to Australia to start a new life in what he thought was a good country. And I grew up hearing all the time from him how much he appreciated democracy and freedom in Australia.
"Nevertheless, it led me to choose to live in Israel and pursue my Jewish identity much more deeply."
Jack and Jon spoke to GB News
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Private detective John Garvey, who helped Jack investigate his dad’s past, believes Boris and his brother came to Australia on a mission to hunt down the Nazi war criminals.
As reported by The Sun, the detective said: “I believe Boris and Fima came here for revenge. A large number of the Lithuanian Nazi collaborators came to Australia in 1948. They were responsible for killing Boris and Fima’s family.
“We also know that Boris, Fima and others came here in 1949.
“A significant number of Nazi collaborators disappeared after coming to Australia. There were many suspicious deaths… suicides that may have been murders.”