A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more.You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do?While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside ...

“Simon Wiesenthal since the end of World War II has had one major aim in life — to track down as many as possible of the SS men who took part in the administration of the concentration and extermination camps run by the Third Reich... The writing of this book was actually done by the well-known journalist Joseph Wechsberg to whom Wiesenthal told his stories and who contributes a series of profiles of the narrator. It is a dramatic and knowledgeable account... [Wiesenthal’s is] a remarkable...

Sie sind ein KZ-Häftling. Ein sterbender SS-Soldat bittet Sie um Vergebung. Was tun Sie? Vor ebendieser Entscheidung stand der Holocaust-Überlebende Simon Wiesenthal im Jahr 1942. In seiner Erzählung Die Sonnenblume schildert der große Kämpfer für Recht und Gerechtigkeit seinen Gewissenskonflikt, der ihn noch Jahrzehnte später nicht losließ. Hatte er das Richtige getan? Darf das Unverzeihliche verziehen werden? Wenn ja, wie? Wenn nein, wie weiterleben? Simon Wiesenthals Fragen rühren an di...

This first fully documented biography of Simon Wiesenthal, the legendary Nazi hunter, is also a brilliant character study of a man whose life was part invention but wholly dedicated to ensuring both that the Nazis be held responsible for their crimes and that the destruction of European Jewry never be forgotten.Like most Jews in Eastern Europe on the eve of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, twenty-four-year-old Simon Wiesenthal did not grasp the nature of the Nazi threa...

“The beloved and reviled ‘Nazi hunter’ pens his life story, and a riveting one it is. Born in Galicia, one of the most war-ravaged territories in the world, he miraculously survived World War II, with more than one hair’s-breadth escape. Since that time he has been occupied mainly with tracking down Nazi war criminals who have gone into hiding and in pushing, through publicity, reluctant German and Austrian officials to bring war criminals to justice... the book consists of mainly... a mis...

As trombetas da guerra foram silenciadas. Os aliados celebram a vitória sobre a Alemanha esmagada. Enquanto isso, os Estados Unidos e a União Soviética estão lutando pelos territórios como espólios de guerra, mas nem tudo é como parece: dos confins do novo mundo a sombra do terror ameaça se espalhar novamente.Na América do Sul, o nazismo se recusa a morrer e prepara a Operação Endsturm, o golpe final para terminar o que não conseguiu antes, a dominação total do mundo.No entan...

En un texto de lectura apasionante y conmovedora, se narra la vida de Simon Wiessenthal, sobreviviente de varios campos de concrentración alemanes, quien dedicara su vida a localizar y llevar al banquillo de los acusados a algunos de los nazis responsables de tanto dolor. Paralelamente, los servicios secretos israelies, con otros métodos materiales y de inteligencia, trataron también de impedir que el crimen quedara del todo impune. En la brevedad de este volúmen, el autor retrata parte de...

Cuando las tropas aliadas entraron en Europa tras vencer a la maquinaria de guerra nazi, hallaron un panorama desolador. Los múltiples campos de concentración y exterminio diseminados por el continente mostraban las huellas de no de los mayores crímenes de la Humanidad: el llamado Holocausto o Shoá, en hebreo. Millones de personas, incluyendo ancianos, mujeres y niños, habían sido perseguidas, recluidas y exterminadas en masa. A partir de ese momento nació el deseo de obtener justicia en m...