
Salomon Tauber (died 22 November 1963) was a German-Jewish Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter. In 1963, he was murdered by the neo-Nazi organization ODESSA after discovering that the war criminal Eduard Roschmann was still alive.
Biography[]
Salomon Tauber was born in Hamburg, Germany to a Jewish family. During the Holocaust, he and his wife Esther were imprisoned by the Nazis and sent to the Riga concentration camp, where Tauber used his carpentry skills to keep himself occupied and alive. Esther was killed when she and several other prisoners were lured into a mobile gas chamber disguised as a van headed to a musical performance, with Esther being the last person to board the van; Tauber was held back by Captain Eduard Roschmann and severely beaten for protesting his separation from his girlfriend. He ultimately survived the war, vowing to bring Roschmann to justice, even after Roschmann faked his death and became the leader of the neo-Nazi ODESSA organization.

Tauber's body
In 1963, Tauber spotted Roschmann leaving the Hamburg opera house with several SS friends, causing him to report this to the police. However, the police refused to investigate further, and, not long after, Tauber wrote out his life's story in a diary, knowing that the police were in cahoots with ODESSA. On 22 November 1963, Tauber was pushed from his apartment window in Hamburg, and his death was ruled a suicide. Journalist Peter Miller was gifted Tauber's diary by his police contact Karl Braun, who believed that Taubman's biography would make for a fine human interest story, but Braun failed to persuade Miller to return the diary after Miller used it to begin his hunt for ODESSA and Roschmann.