Simon Wiesenthal - prisoner of 12 Nazi concentration camps, famous "hunter for Nazi criminals", died in 96 years in Vienna. Jewish Community of Kazakhstan mourns with the entire Jewish world.
Our sages told: "That, who is merciful to cruel, at last will take cruelty to merciful". That was a credo of Simon Wiesenthal’s life: crimes against humanity can’t have statute of limitation, oblivion and of course it should not have forgiveness. Not only for the sake of fallen, but also because such false "mercy" makes future criminals hope for impunity.
- Simon Wiesenthal was a "conscience" of Holocaust – told rabbi Marvin Hier, director and founder of Simon Wiesenthal’s centre, in interview for Jewish mass media, in connection with death of Wiesenthal – When Holocaust finished in 1945 the world tried to forget it he appeared one of remembering. He forgot nothing.