Nazi-Hunter Wiesenthal Dies at 96
Holocaust survivor and Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal has died in the Austrian capital, Vienna, aged 96.
Mr Wiesenthal, who grew up in Ukraine, was a prisoner in the Mauthausen death camp when it was liberated by US troops in May 1945, but dozens of his family members – including his mother, stepfather and stepbrother – died in the Holocaust.
He was credited with helping to bring more than 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice in the decades after the genocide of the Jews in World War II.
They included Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Holocaust, and Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor death camps in Poland.
As the Captain at Captain’s Quarters says:
To say that the world owes Weisenthal a debt of gratitude may be an insult. I would say that humanity owes Weisenthal for the opportunity he gave us to recover our collective soul. Thank you, Simon, and Godspeed. You have earned your rest, and may those of us you leave behind find ourselves a tenth as worthy.
Source: BBC, Captain’s Quarters.
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