Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthalwas an Austrian Nazi hunter and writer. He was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth31 December 1908
CityBuchach, Ukraine
CountryAustria
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I was over four years in different camps with people from 15 nations: Jews, Gentiles, Gypsies, communists. Through this experience, my view on the Holocaust and the whole problem of Nazism is a lot different from Elie Wiesel, who was only six months in camps and only with Jews.
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I'm here to assure you that our city is prepared to handle these situations, ... Power was restored to the vast majority of D.W.P. customers, 90 percent, within the first two hours.
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We thought we were going mad, ... Perhaps we feared (or hoped) we were mad already.
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to expose the plight of black slaves in Sudan and Mauritania, where today tens of thousands of black people still suffer the scourge of slavery.
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If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years,
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When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it,
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He did not want to be buried in Austria, as he was afraid his grave will be mutilated.
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Should history repeat itself, my example will repeat itself too...and not once, but fifty-fold.
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The only value of nearly five decades of my work is a warning to the murderers of tomorrow, that they will never rest.
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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 smuggled coffee and American cigarettes.' Another will say, 'I built houses.' But I will say, 'I didn't forget you.' Â
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You drew such a positive profile of me from this sample that I can only say: I like it!
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We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?
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When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.
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(The ruling is) a victory of history over hate, ... Today's decision definitely places Irving where he belongs -- not as a historian, but as a leading apologist for those who seek to whitewash the most heinous crime in human history.