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Oral history interview with Simon Wiesenthal

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.73.3 | RG Number: RG-50.569.0003

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    Oral history interview with Simon Wiesenthal

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Simon Wiesenthal describes his views on the hesitation of survivors to tell their experiences to their children; encountering the same anxieties in WWII German officers years after the war; explaining to his own daughter, who was the only Jewish child in her school, about why they had no extended family; his liberation from Mauthausen and realizing that their justice could be sought after the war; beginning his organization (Jewish Documentation Centre); their war criminal investigations becoming more organized after Eichmann's capture; how many war criminals fled to Argentina and other countries; the Israeli view of Holocaust survivors in the early 1960s; the psychological reasoning for resistance and the difficulty of leaving family to join the resistance; his feeling as a Nazi hunter that he prevented the same propaganda from spreading; the left and right Fascism today; how at the time of the interview 1100 Nazi criminals have been brought to justice and they’re working on 300 more cases; believing he located Mengele and missed him by 80 minutes; his wife, who lives in Italy, and his son, who lives in Vienna, Austria; and a female camp commandant, Braunsteiner, who was arrested in Queens after a 9 year search.
    Interviewee
    Simon Wiesenthal
    Date
    interview:  1975 May 12

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Extent
    1 sound cassette (90 min.).

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    Provenance
    Peter Wortsman conducted the interview with Simon Wiesenthal on May 12, 1975. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on September 9, 2003.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:58:56
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