Simon Wiesenthal, 96, dies

[Ghoulish Delight]

After surviving life in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wesenthal dedicated his life to bringing Nazi murderers to justice. His work lead to more than 1000 people to trial for their crimes, including the man who arrested Anne Frank. When the rest of the world was trying to forget, he made sure no one ever would. And his legacy will live on with the Simon Weisenthal Center.

He was an asset to this world and will be missed.

http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nl/content.asp?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=312458&content_id={3F90833B-C57B-42B7-BB2B-9876E0C87E89}&notoc=1

[Cadaverous Pallor]

In jr. high I visited the Simon Wiesenthal museum and I'll never forget it.

Thank God for people like him.

[wendybeth]

What an amazing man, and I'm glad that not only did he survive the Deathcamps, but he outlived most of the persons responsible for them. (Especially the ones he brought to justice).

[innerSpaceman]

An exemplary life, with a fine legacy. Died in his sleep (so reports say) at a fine old age, after much honorable and passionate work for a good cause, after surviving tragic suffering. Would that more of us could have a life half as noble.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Wiesenthal is often asked to explain his motives for becoming a Nazi hunter. According to Clyde Farnsworth in the New York Times Magazine (February 2, 1964), Wiesenthal once spent the Sabbath at the home of a former Mauthausen inmate, now a well-to-do jewelry manufacturer. After dinner his host said, "Simon, if you had gone back to building houses, you'd be a millionaire. Why didn't you?" "You're a religious man," replied Wiesenthal. "You believe in God and life after death. I also believe. When we come to the other world and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us, 'What have you done?', there will be many answers. You will say, 'I became a jeweler', Another will say, I have smuggled coffee and American cigarettes', Another will say, 'I built houses', But I will say, 'I didn't forget you.'"


An amazing man.