Simon Wiesenthal
"For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing."
This quote was said by Simon Wiesenthal and the quote was reffering to all the german people that sat back and let Hitler create the holocaust. Simon Wiesenthal is one of the survivors of the holocaust and was an Austrian writer and Nazi hunter. He became famous after World War II because of his work as a Nazi hunter. Before the war he studied architecture and was living in Lwów . After being forced to work as a slave laborer in the Nazi concentration camps such as Janowska, Plaszow, and Mauthausen during the war. After the war and the Jews were freed Wiesenthal dedicated most of his life to tracking down and gathering information on fugitive Nazi war criminals so that they could be brought to trial. In 1947 he co-founded the Jewish Historical Documentation Centerin Linz, Austria, where he and others gathered information for future war crime trials and aided refugees in their search for lost relatives. He opened the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna in 1961 and continued to try to locate missing Nazi war criminals. He played a small role in locating Adolf Eichmann - who was kidnapped from Buenos Aires in 1960 - and worked closely with the Austrian justice ministry to prepare a dossier on Franz Stangl, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1971.
"For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing."
This quote was said by Simon Wiesenthal and the quote was reffering to all the german people that sat back and let Hitler create the holocaust. Simon Wiesenthal is one of the survivors of the holocaust and was an Austrian writer and Nazi hunter. He became famous after World War II because of his work as a Nazi hunter. Before the war he studied architecture and was living in Lwów . After being forced to work as a slave laborer in the Nazi concentration camps such as Janowska, Plaszow, and Mauthausen during the war. After the war and the Jews were freed Wiesenthal dedicated most of his life to tracking down and gathering information on fugitive Nazi war criminals so that they could be brought to trial. In 1947 he co-founded the Jewish Historical Documentation Centerin Linz, Austria, where he and others gathered information for future war crime trials and aided refugees in their search for lost relatives. He opened the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna in 1961 and continued to try to locate missing Nazi war criminals. He played a small role in locating Adolf Eichmann - who was kidnapped from Buenos Aires in 1960 - and worked closely with the Austrian justice ministry to prepare a dossier on Franz Stangl, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1971.
Elie Wiesel
"To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."
This quote was said by Elie Wiesel and it means that we cant just sit back and act like nothing happened, 6 million people died during this horror so if we just forget about that then the dead had died in vain. Elie Wiesel is a Jewish-American professor and political activist. He has published 57 books, including Night, a book based on his experiences as one of the prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Buna concentration camps. Beside being a famous author Wiesel is also the Advisory Board chairman of the newspaper called Algemeiner Journal. When Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, the Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a "messenger to mankind," stating that through all the struggle he had faced he still came to terms with "his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler's death camps," as well as his "practical work in the cause of peace," Wiesel had delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity.
"To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."
This quote was said by Elie Wiesel and it means that we cant just sit back and act like nothing happened, 6 million people died during this horror so if we just forget about that then the dead had died in vain. Elie Wiesel is a Jewish-American professor and political activist. He has published 57 books, including Night, a book based on his experiences as one of the prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Buna concentration camps. Beside being a famous author Wiesel is also the Advisory Board chairman of the newspaper called Algemeiner Journal. When Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, the Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a "messenger to mankind," stating that through all the struggle he had faced he still came to terms with "his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler's death camps," as well as his "practical work in the cause of peace," Wiesel had delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity.
Primo Levi
"My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die."
This quote refers to the number that was given to the Jews when they first entered a concentration camp.
During the Holocaust, concentration camp prisoners received tattoos only at one location, the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, which consisted of Auschwitz I (Main Camp), Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau), and Auschwitz III (Monowitz and the subcamps). Incoming prisoners were assigned a camp serial number which was sewn to their prison uniforms. Only those prisoners selected for work were issued serial numbers; those prisoners sent directly to the gas chambers were not registered and received no tattoos.
"My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die."
This quote refers to the number that was given to the Jews when they first entered a concentration camp.
During the Holocaust, concentration camp prisoners received tattoos only at one location, the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, which consisted of Auschwitz I (Main Camp), Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau), and Auschwitz III (Monowitz and the subcamps). Incoming prisoners were assigned a camp serial number which was sewn to their prison uniforms. Only those prisoners selected for work were issued serial numbers; those prisoners sent directly to the gas chambers were not registered and received no tattoos.