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 have never stated that 'there were no extermination camps on German soil.' This quote is false, I could never have said such a thing.
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The end was surely near, ... The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.
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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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That, ... is why the neo-Nazis had to do anything they could to question its authenticity.
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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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God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.
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No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil.
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What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.
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The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
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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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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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The only value of nearly five decades of my work is a warning to the murderers of tomorrow, that they will never rest.