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Article: A Selective Memory Of Simon Wiesenthal
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- The Washington Post
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- June 8, 2007
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"Please," Simon Wiesenthal begged as he neared the end of his
life, "do not turn me into a hero." His face fallen, the eyes of a
supposedly hard man now overflowing with tears, the legendary Nazi
hunter asked to be remembered only as a survivor. "I do not feel
like a hero."
Wiesenthal was feared, loathed, resented. Who was this little man
to appoint himself investigator and prosecutor in a half-century-
long quest for the architects and executioners of the Nazi genocide?
His house was firebombed, his daughter threatened. But nothing
stopped his search for those who knew that time is evil's press
agent.
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