The Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Memoirs
by Simon Wiesenthal
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In these days of Holocaust deniers, this book is a needed reminder of the horrors the Nazis perpetrated on the Jews. Simon Wiesenthal personified the difference between vengeance and justice. He is dead now but his words should spur both Jews and Christians to proclaim: NEVER AGAIN!
This is a biography of Simon Wiesenthal that encompasses his trials as a victim of the Holocaust and the Life he led afterwards locating Holocaust survivors and locating nazi war criminals.
This is macabre but essential reading on the Holocaust.
"Se anche vivessi fino a poter raccontare la verità, nessuno ti crederebbe" disse una SS al prigioniero ebreo Simon Wissenthal, il famoso ex architetto polacco che ha organizzato le ricerche dei criminali nazisti nel mondo. Pur grondando di sangue, le memorie dell'autore, non sono solo un racconto d'orrore, ma ogni pagina esprime una fede costante nel Dio di tutti gli uomini, nell'umanità stessa.
Mar 8, 2012 (Edited)Italian
"Los asesinos entre nosotros" son aquellos miembros de las SS y de la Gestapo que colaboraron en esos crímenes y que, después de la guerra, pretendieron continuar con sus vidas bajo nombres ficticios e incluso con sus propios nombres. El Centro de Documentación Judía, fundado por Wiesenthal, siguió la pista de muchos de ellos y consiguió ponerlos a disposición de la justicia.
Oct 23, 2022Spanish
Az igazság malmai
Jan 14, 2010 (Edited)Yiddish
Simon Wiesenthal
Apr 22, 2020Italian
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Simon Wiesenthal was born on December 31, 1908 in a small town near the present-day Ukrainian city of Lvov. He attended the Technical University of Prague after being turned away from the Polytechnic Institute in Lvov because of quota restrictions on Jewish students. He received his degree in architectural engineering in 1932 and opened an show more architectural office in Lvov. He was forced to close his business at the beginning of World War II. By September 1942, a total of eighty-nine members of both his and his wife's families perished. He was liberated from the Mauthausen death camp in Austria by the Americans on May 5, 1945. It was his fifth death camp among the dozen Nazi camps in which he was imprisoned during the war. After the war, Wiesenthal began gathering and preparing evidence on Nazi atrocities for the War Crimes Section of the United States Army and other organizations. He spent more than 50 years hunting Nazi war criminals and speaking out against neo-Nazism and racism. His main function as a Nazi hunter was gathering and analyzing information and then passing it on to the appropriate authorities. According to him, his work helped bring about 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice; including Adolf Eichmann, Karl Silberbauer, and Franz Stangl. He died on September 20, 2005 in Vienna at the age of 96. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Gli assassini sono tra noi
- Original title
- The Murderers Among Us : The Simon Wiesenthal memoirs
- Original publication date
- 1967
- People/Characters
- Simon Wiesenthal
- First words*
- Alle dieci di mattina del 5 Maggio 1945, vidi un grosso carro armato grigio con una stella bianca sulla fiancata e la bandiera americana che sventolava dalla torretta.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Durante la conversazione saltò fuori che l'uomo in questione, che non osa rientrare in Europa, vive nel Perù.
- Original language
- English
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- D804 .G4 .W5195 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania History (General) World War II (1939-1945)
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