Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthalwas an Austrian Nazi hunter and writer. He was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth31 December 1908
CityBuchach, Ukraine
CountryAustria
rights tolerance humans
Tolerance and human rights require each other.
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What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.
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The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.
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Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day
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For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.
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For me the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I sent letters to Jewish organizations asking them to talk also about the millions of others who were persecuted with us together - many of them only because they helped Jews.
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There is no freedom without justice.
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The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.
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There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.
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When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it.
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Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
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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.' Another will say, 'I built houses.' But I will say, 'I didn't forget you.'
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For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
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The end was surely near, ... The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.