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“For me the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I sent letters to Jewish organizations asking them to talk also about the millions of others who were persecuted with us together - many of them only because they helped Jews.”

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Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal

Simon Wiesenthal, born on December 31, 1908, in Lviv, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine), and died on September 20, 2005, in Vienna, Austria, was a renowned Nazi hunter. He dedicated his life to tracking down and prosecuting Nazi war criminals. Wiesenthal was himself imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II and survived the Holocaust. After the war, he established his own investigative organization, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which specializes in tracking and prosecuting Nazi war criminals. His work has been crucial in revealing the truth about Nazi atrocities, tracking down war criminals, and promoting historical justice. more

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