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The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.
— Simon Wiesenthal
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Simon Wiesenthal
Nazis hunter, autobiographer, architect, advocate, opinion journalist, musician, writer, journalist
1908 – 2005
Simon Wiesenthal was an Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture, and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Janowska concentration camp, the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, a death march to Chemnitz, Buchenwald, and the Mauthausen concentration camp.
All Quotes by Simon Wiesenthal
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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.
— Simon Wiesenthal
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You're a religious man. You believe in God and life after death. I also believe. 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.' Still another will say, 'I built houses,' but I will say, 'I didn't forget you.'
— Simon Wiesenthal
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Survivors should be like seismographs... They should sense danger before others do, identify its outlines and reveal them. They are not entitled to be wrong a second time or regard as harmless something that might lead to catastrophe.
— Simon Wiesenthal
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For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
— Simon Wiesenthal
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For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
— Simon Wiesenthal
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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.
— Simon Wiesenthal