Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Simon Wiesenthal

"My most hard work, and I am very proud of this case, was to find the man who arrested Anne Frank... the family Frank was like 10,000 other families, but Anne Frank became a symbol of the million murdered children, and I tell it to the father of Anne Frank, the diary of his daughter had a bigger impact than the Nuremberg trial. Why? Because people identified with this child. This was the impact of the Holocaust, this was a family like my family, like your family and so you could understand this."

Simon Wiesenthal - a man who did not forget, and whose tireless work helped us to remember.

Read more of his own words, and Guardian's obituary

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ack! But THEN what happened?!? Anyone else read this and say... but then what happened to that Austrian policeman after Simon tracked him down?! Anyone know?

~Jo

hornblower said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Silberbauer

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