simon weisenthal
simon weisenthal checked out tuesday, age 96. he spent time in five nazi concentration camps and by his own count, had 89 relatives exterminated in the camps. he spent the rest of his life hunting down the perpetrators of nazi genocide and bringing them to trial -- not for vengeance, he said, but for justice.
very shortly, there will be no one left who experienced these events firsthand, which makes it ever more important to keep their memory alive. back in the '80s, a buddy of mine who was both an air force historian and a jew took a world war II class at one of the bible colleges in abilene. the premise of the class, he said, was that the holocaust never happened -- that it was a hoax. this in spite of the mountains of documentary evidence (and human remains). persistent denial of reality _is_ a sign of madness.
to simon weisenthal, at last, peace.
very shortly, there will be no one left who experienced these events firsthand, which makes it ever more important to keep their memory alive. back in the '80s, a buddy of mine who was both an air force historian and a jew took a world war II class at one of the bible colleges in abilene. the premise of the class, he said, was that the holocaust never happened -- that it was a hoax. this in spite of the mountains of documentary evidence (and human remains). persistent denial of reality _is_ a sign of madness.
to simon weisenthal, at last, peace.
posted by stashdauber at 2:50 PM
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His story is amazing. I'll have to look for Gideon's_Spies_, which is a detailed history of the Mossad. Spielberg is filming a movie about the Mossad agents who tracked down the Palestinians who murdered the Israeli athletes in '72. Say what you want about Israel, but their intelligence is second to none, including the keystone kops in Langley.
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