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The Wiesenthal file
- Title
- The Wiesenthal file / Alan Levy.
- Author
- Levy, Alan.
- Publication
- London : Constable, 1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DS135.A93 W534 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 463 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- Relates Simon Wiesenthal's biography and the most prominent of his activities. Wiesenthal was born in Galicia, and during the Second World War went through a number of labor and concentration camps. Disappointed by the laxity of American military authorities, he founded his own Documentation Center in Austria to trace Nazi war criminals. Wiesenthal played a key role in tracking down Eichmann, Mengele, Stangl of Treblinka, Wagner of Sobibór, and Braunsteiner-Ryan of Majdanek. Wiesenthal was also active in the search for Wallenberg. In 1986 he was involved in the Waldheim affair. Despite the World Jewish Congress's firm belief that Waldheim was a war criminal, Wiesenthal could not substantiate these allegations, and came to Waldheim's defense. Wiesenthal's activities brought him into conflict with Bruno Kreisky, Austrian Chancellor and a "self-hating Jew".
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Part I: Wiesenthal's wars -- Part II: Adolf Eichmann -- Part III: Raoul Wallenberg -- Part IV: Josef Mengele -- Part V: Franz Paul Stangl, Gustav Wagner, Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan -- Part VI: Bruno Kreisky, Kurt Walkheim -- Part VII: Episodes and epilogues.
- ISBN
- 009471570X
- 9780094715707
- LCCN
- 94016552
- OCLC
- ocm59890303
- 59890303
- SCSB-2028984
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library