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Author Segev, Tom, 1945-

Title Simon Wiesenthal : the life and legends / Tom Segev.

Publication Info. New York : Doubleday, [2010]
©2010

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  DS135.A93 W537 2010    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description viii, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-462) and index.
Contents "Eichmann is my passion" -- "During that period, we never took Hitler seriously" -- "See you on the soap shelf" -- "Who knows her? Who has seen her?" -- "The duty of an Austrian patriot" -- "That's how I became a stamp collector" -- "I hope you're not coming to see me" -- "I always said he's in Buenos Aires" -- "Sleuth with 6 million clients" -- "You may have thought he was happy, but he also cried sometimes" -- "A huge mass of rotten flesh" -- "Auschwitz lines" -- "What would you have done?" -- "Kreisky is going mad" -- "Better than any monster" -- "Mr. Wiesenthal, I claim, had different relations with the Gestapo from mine" -- "It's not easy to be my wife" -- "The children-- were actually the same children" -- "Only so that Mengele's name would not be forgotten" -- "As if I were already dead" -- "Sleazenthal" -- "We all made mistakes in our youth."
Summary A fully documented profile of the "Nazi hunter" famous for his unrelenting pursuit of Nazi criminals draws on extensive international records to discuss such topics as his role in capturing Adolf Eichmann, rivalry with Elie Wiesel, and infamy later in life.
Subject Wiesenthal, Simon.
Wiesenthal, Simon.
Holocaust survivors -- Austria -- Vienna -- Biography.
Holocaust survivors.
Austria -- Vienna.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Nazi hunters -- Biography.
Nazi hunters.
Jews -- Austria -- Vienna -- Biography.
Jews.
War criminals.
War criminals.
Austria -- Politics and government -- 1945-
Austria.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1945-
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 9780385519465
038551946X