We, The VFFDP, will post one quote from Simon Wiesenthal who passed away on this
date, September 20, 2005. Let us remember Wiesenthal for hunting down the evil
Nazis.
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Simon Wiesenthal
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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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