Charles Zentai (born Károly Steiner; October 8, 1921 – December 13, 2017) was a Hungarian-born resident of Australia accused of a Holocaust-related war crime.
He resided in Perth, Western Australia for many years after living in the American- and French-occupied zones of post-World War II Germany.
[1][2] Zentai, who denied the charges against him, was serving in the Hungarian Army as warrant officer at the time he was accused of having murdered Péter Balázs, an 18-year-old Jewish man, in November 1944.
[4] Zentai was tracked down by The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which also headed the effort to extradite him to Hungary to stand trial before a military tribunal.
[9] Simon Wiesenthal Center director Efraim Zuroff said he was very pleased that Zentai's appeals had been rejected and that "the extradition process can finally proceed.