Agence France-Presse – September 20, 2005VIENNA, Sept 20 (AFP) – Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal, an untiring campaigner who helped track down hundreds of Nazi war criminals, died Tuesday in Vienna aged 96, the US-based center which bears his name said.
Wiesenthal, who died after a long illness, helped bring more than 1,100 Nazi criminals to justice, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which did not give the cause of his death.
Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Los Angeles-based center, described Wiesenthal as “the conscience of the Holocaust”.
“When the Holocaust ended in 1945 and the whole world went home to forget, he alone remained behind to remember,” Hier said in a statement.
“He did not forget. He became the permanent representative of the victims, determined to bring the perpetrators of the historys greatest crime to justice. ”
Simon Wiesenthal, holocaust survivor turned Nazi hunter, dies
Published: 2005/09/20Posted in: take good note of the western horizon
