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Simon Wiesenthal

Born

in Buchach, Ukraine

December 31, 1908

Died

September 20, 2005

Website

https://www.wiesenthal.com/

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

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Simon Wiesenthal, KBE, was an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer and Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter who pursued Nazi war criminals in an effort to bring them to justice.

Following four and a half years in the German concentration camps such as Janowska, Plaszow, and Mauthausen during World War II, Wiesenthal dedicated most of his life to tracking down and gathering information on fugitive Nazis so that they could be brought to justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity. In 1947, he co-founded the Jewish Historical Documentation Center in Linz, Austria, in order to gather information for future war crime trials. Later he opened Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna. Wiesenthal ...more

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Simon Wiesenthal’s books

Average rating: 4.1 · 10,866 ratings · 1,133 reviews · 54 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness 4.11 avg rating — 9,870 ratings — published 1969 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Murderers Among Us 4.10 avg rating — 373 ratings — published 1967 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Justice, not vengeance 3.96 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1988 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Max and Helen 3.79 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 1981 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sails of Hope: the Secret Mission of Christopher Columbus 3.86 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1973 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Every Day Remembrance Day: A Chronicle of Jewish Martyrdom 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1987 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Krystyna: The Tragedy of the Polish Resistance (STUDIES IN AUSTRIAN LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND THOUGHT TRANSLATION SERIES) 3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Flucht vor dem Schicksal 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eu Persegui Eichmann 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.”
― Simon Wiesenthal

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“Forgetting is something time alone takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision”
― Simon Wiesenthal

tags: forgetting-the-past, forgiving-a-wrong, forgiving-others, forgiving-youself, time-heals

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“There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.”
― Simon Wiesenthal

tags: community, creating-strong-communities, dissolving-injustice, doing-whats-right, fighting-against-injustice, peace, peace-in-society, peace-on-earth, standing-up

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Polls

What would you like to read for Book of the Month for April 2012?

The Night Circus/Erin Morgenstern

23 votes, 63.9%

A Watershed Year/Susan Schoenberger

6 votes, 16.7%

In the Company of the Courtesan

3 votes, 8.3%

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness/Simon Wiesenthal

2 votes, 5.6%

After/Amy Efaw/Sarah Dunant

2 votes, 5.6%

36 total votes

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