Research Catalog

Title

Simon Wiesenthal : the life and legends / Tom Segev.

Author

Segev, Tom, 1945-

Publication

New York : Doubleday, c2010.

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Details

Description

viii, 482 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.

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.

Subjects

• Austria > Politics and government > 1945-
• War criminals
• Jews > Austria > Vienna > Biography
• Nazi hunters > Biography
• Holocaust survivors > Austria > Vienna > Biography
• Wiesenthal, Simon

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [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."

ISBN

• 9780385519465
• 038551946X

LCCN

2009053480

OCLC

• ocn496160303
• SCSB-14409874

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library