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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Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
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The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.
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There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.
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Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day
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Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.
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Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.
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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.
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The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
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I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.
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Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.
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God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.
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Tolerance and human rights require each other.
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No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil.
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Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.