Long-time Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal says his work is completed. In an interview published this week in the Austrian magazine Format, the 94-year-old Wiesenthal said, "I found the mass-murderers I sought, and I have lived longer than the others. If there are those whom I haven't sought, they're now too old to be tried."
He expressed some frustration with the fact that the crimes of the Holocaust are still not fully understood: "It's hard to get the public to really understand the crimes that these people committed. I still have to struggle with people and groups who say that the Holocaust never happened."
Wiesenthal spent most of World War II in concentration camps and work camps, and began searching for evidence against Nazis almost immediately afterwards. He worked for the War Crimes Department of the U.S. Army, and then founded his own Center for the Documentation of Jewish History in Austria. He was instrumental in apprehending over 1,000 Nazi war criminals, including Adolph Eichmann. The international Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust, was established in 1977.
He expressed some frustration with the fact that the crimes of the Holocaust are still not fully understood: "It's hard to get the public to really understand the crimes that these people committed. I still have to struggle with people and groups who say that the Holocaust never happened."
Wiesenthal spent most of World War II in concentration camps and work camps, and began searching for evidence against Nazis almost immediately afterwards. He worked for the War Crimes Department of the U.S. Army, and then founded his own Center for the Documentation of Jewish History in Austria. He was instrumental in apprehending over 1,000 Nazi war criminals, including Adolph Eichmann. The international Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust, was established in 1977.