Transcript: Profile: Simon Wiesenthal dies at age 96

STEVE INSKEEP
Morning Edition (NPR)
09-20-2005
Profile: Simon Wiesenthal dies at age 96

Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon

STEVE INSKEEP, host:

Simon Wiesenthal has died. He spent decades hunting Nazi war criminals, and he helped to find a leader of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, who was hiding in Argentina. Simon Wiesenthal was himself a survivor of the Holocaust. He said he continued hunting Nazis the rest of his life because, in another world, he might meet again with those the Nazis killed during World War II.

(Soundbite from BBC)

Mr. SIMON WIESENTHAL (Holocaust Survivor): I am a religious man, and maybe the religion is true, and they say that after our world, there's ...

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