Memories...
Monday, November 26, 2007
ON SIMON WIESENTHAL
The Simon Wiesenthal story as a cause in Human Security: Undoing the Legacy of Hitler’s Atrocities.
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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.' '' (Quoted in Blumenthal 2005)
