Nazi Hunters - Simon Wiesenthal, Efraim Zuroff, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, Yaron Svoray, Nazi Hunter, Tuviah Friedman, Elliot Welles, Nakam (Paperback)

Chapters: Simon Wiesenthal, Efraim Zuroff, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, Yaron Svoray, Nazi Hunter, Tuviah Friedman, Elliot Welles, Nakam. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Simon Wiesenthal KBE (December 31, 1908 September 20, 2005) was an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer and Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter who pursued Nazi war criminals. Following four and a half years in the German concentration camps such as Janowska, Plaszow, and Mauthausen during World War II, Wiesenthal dedicated most of his life to tracking down and gathering information on fugitive Nazis so that they could be brought to justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity. In 1947, he co-founded the Jewish Historical Documentation Center in Linz, Austria, in order to gather information for future war crime trials. Later he opened Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna. Wiesenthal wrote The Sunflower, which describes a life-changing event he experienced when he was in the camp. Wiesenthal died in his sleep at age 96 in Vienna on September 20, 2005, and was buried in the city of Herzliya in Israel on September 23. He is survived by his daughter, Paulinka Kriesberg, and three grandchildren. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, located in Los Angeles in the United States, is named in his honor. A biography by Guy Walters asserts that many of Wiesenthal's claims regarding his education, wartime experiences and Nazi hunting exploits are untrue or exaggerated. Walters calls Wiesenthals claims "an illusion mounted for a good cause." It is difficult to establish a reliable narrative of Wiesenthals life due to the inconsistencies between his three memoirs which are in turn all contradicted by contemporary records. What is even more dif...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2721845