A hero is retiring at age 94. Simon Wiesenthal may be one of the most dedicated men in human history. His experience is an inspiration, and a reminder that important, difficult things don't happen quickly. We will need his kind again and again, until all the tyrants and murderers are gone - one day.
Renowned Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal was quoted as saying on Thursday he would soon close his files after nearly half a century because his work to track down the perpetrators of the Holocaust was complete. "I found the mass murderers I was looking for, and I have outlived all of them. If there's a few I didn't look for, they are now too old and fragile to stand trial. My work is done," the 94-year-old told the Austrian weekly magazine "Format." "It is very difficult to get the public to really understand the crimes of these people," Wiesenthal was quoted in a statement released ahead of the magazine's publication on Friday. "Still I have to bother with people and groups that claim that the Holocaust never happened."
Wiesenthal spent decades tracking down more than 1,000 Nazi war criminals responsible for the mass murder of Jews in World War II and played a role in the capture of Adolf Hitler's close associate Adolf Eichmann.
Posted by Alan at April 18, 2003 10:24 PM