This is the remarkable story of a man who has become a legend in his own lifetime. Simon Wiesenthal spent four and a half years in Mauthausen concentration camp during the Second World War. With the exception of his wife, all his immediate family were exterminated, and he himself ended the war a living skeleton. Since then, he has achieved international renown for his tireless tracking down of Nazi war criminalsincluding his capture of Eichmann, the "desk murderer" who masterminded Hitler's Final Solution, and Stangl the overlord of Treblinkaand for his pursuit of Mengele of Auschwitz, the dreaded "Angel of Death. " To this day his work continues, his motivation simply expressed in the words: "Justice, not vengeance. " The accounts of inspired detective work that lie behind Wiesenthal's successful apprehension of the fugitives reads as excitingly as any thriller, but Alan Levy's book is much more than that. It is an award-winning examination of the work of one of the greatest Jewish figures of the twentieth century.
8 pages of black-and-white photographs bring to life this gripping account of the life-long pursuit of justice by the man who declared "So long as the criminals are free, the war has not ended for me. " "Wiesenthal has played his part in a disturbing episode of post-war history. [A] readable and intelligent book. "The Times (London)
- ISBN10 078671090X
- ISBN13 9780786710904
- Publish Date 17 September 2002 (first published 29 August 2002)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 464
- Language English