For the quote of the
week, I will post one quote from Simon Wiesenthal who passed away seven years
ago on this day. Let us remember Wiesenthal for hunting down the evil Nazis.
QUOTE: “There is no freedom without justice.”
AUTHOR:
Simon Wiesenthal, KBE (December 31,
1908 – September 20, 2005) was an Austrian Holocaust survivor who became
famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter.
After 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 the
Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna. Wiesenthal wrote The Sunflower,
which describes a life-changing event he experienced when he was in the camp.
Wiesenthal died in
his sleep at age 96 in Vienna on September 20, 2005, and was buried in the city
of Herzliya in Israel on September 23. He is survived by his daughter, Paulinka
Kriesberg, and three grandchildren. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, located in Los
Angeles, is named in his honor.
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