Simon Wiesenthal

While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the way had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place?In this important book, fifty-three distinguished men and women respond to Wiesenthal's questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors, and victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China and Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal's questions are not limited to events of the past. Often surprising and always thought provoking, The Sunflower will challenge you to define your beliefs about justice, compassion, and human responsibility.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Recognized on publication as the definitive account of its subject, [The Origins of Totalitarianism](/works/OL10460640W) remains the foundation for continuing discussion. In this first volume of her monumental study Dr. Arendt traces the rise of antisemitism in Central and Western European Jewish history in the nineteenth century, delineating the part Jews played in the development of the nation-state on one hand and in Gentile society on the other. With the appearance of the first antisemitic parties in the 1870's and Dr. Arendt States, the way was opened that ended in the "final solution." And she views the Dreyfus affair as "a kind of dress rehearsal for the performance of our time"— the first characteristically modern use of antisemitism as an instrument of public policy and of hysteria as a political weapon.

The true story of two Holocaust survivors who refused to bring their camp commander to justice.

"Dangerous Diplomacy tells for the first time the story of Carl Lutz (1895-1975), the Swiss diplomat who single-handedly rescued 62,000 Jews from deportation to Nazi concentration camps - a dating action now recognized as the largest, most successful rescue effort ever undertaken in Nazi-dominated Europe."--BOOK JACKET.

Contains; [Night]( All the unburied ones / Anna Akhmatova -- A Jewish cemetary near Leningrad / Josef Brodsky -- Bitburg / Elie Wiesel -- from Survival in Auschwitz / Primo Levi -- from [The diary of a young girl]( / Anne Frank -- If suddenly you come for me / N. Nor -- from Simon Wiesenthal / Hella Pick -- Three poems / Hannah Senesh -- The Warsaw ghetto uprising / Deborah Bachrach -- from Righteous gentile / John Bierman -- from Schindler's list / Thomas Keneally -- Schindler comes home / Richard Corliss -- We are witnesses / Kenneth L. Woodward -- from The sunflower / Simon Wiesenthal.