Marvin Hier
Marvin Hier
Rabbi MarvinHieris the dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, its Museum of Tolerance and of Moriah, the Center's film division...
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Every (Holocaust) survivor in the world walked a little taller and felt a little more secure because Simon Wiesenthal was out there defending their honor and the honor of their loved ones who perished.
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I think in a way the world owes him and his memory a tremendous amount of gratitude.
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I don't know about companies; I'm sure big companies like that can be complicated. But I would find it difficult to believe that he's a chameleon who changes when it comes to business. I know he's a straight guy.
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Simon Wiesenthal was the conscience of the Holocaust.
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He just took the job, nobody appointed him, nobody else wanted it.
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Rest assured that our work is not over because our work has never been only hunting Nazi war criminals. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an institution, a worldwide institution, engaged in combating anti-Semitism, bigotry, racism. And unfortunately, did we say goodbye to genocide after Hitler died in the bunker? No, we didn't. So in such a world, I'm afraid there will always be a need for organizations like the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
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It's just this long overdue. These people [ex-Nazi brought to trial] should be grateful to the apathy that exists there that prevented them from being brought to trial earlier. All of the people that they committed crimes against had their lives snuffed out, some of them at very young ages. Some of them never had a chance to get married and have children.
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Now documentary evidence is acceptable. What does that mean? If you have documentary evidence that a person served as a guard in one of the death camps and the documents have been authenticated, that is grounds to charge the person with crimes against humanity. And that's why you see the spate of trials previously, for example, in the '70s and the '80s, even in the low '90s. That was not the case until the change in the law.
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Of course, the main reason is the change of law in the way Germany has brought Nazi war criminals to trial. The previous rules was that you'd have to have tangible evidence, and documentary evidence was not sufficient.
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To say a prayer is not enough. One has to believe that it's possible for that prayer to be heard.
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He became the permanent representative of the victims of the Holocaust, determined to bring the perpetrators of the greatest crime to justice.