Simon Wiesenthal in the media

Links to more obituaries and statements:

Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Los Angeles Times

Ynet

The Jerusalem Post: Obituary, reader euologies, and biography, more.

CNN:

With more than six million Jews killed during the Holocaust, including 89 members of his own family, Wiesenthal felt driven to track down those involved in the atrocities.

The Washington Post

The New York Times is going with the AP obit; I can only assume theirs didn’t make the deadline.

The New York times obit in full.

From the Times obituary:

He was often asked why he had become a searcher of Nazi criminals instead of resuming a profitable career in architecture. He gave one questioner this response: “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.’ ”

AFP, via Forbes.

The BBC, with reader comments.

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