He is fairly tall, broad shouldered, has thick, dark hair, streaked with gray. In no way unusual looking, Simon Wiesenthal has had a life marked with incredible experiences and accomplishments, the greatest of which was undoubtedly his discovery of the trail that led to Adolf Eichmann in hiding. Wiesenthal was himself a concentration camp inmate under the Nazis and twice stood above his own grave awaiting imminent execution. Eluding death, he survived until the end of the war when he was stirred by the many accounts of the experiences of fellow ex-prisoners to begin tracing the now-dispersed SS members who had terrorized and slaughtered millions. This book tells of the courage and persistence of a man who does not shirk his obligation to help humanity remember its past.

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