[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 20790]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      IN HONOR OF SIMON WIESENTHAL

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                           HON. MIKE FERGUSON

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 20, 2005

  Mr. FERGUSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and honor Simon 
Wiesenthal, who died today at the age of 96.
  Simon Wiesenthal, a concentration camp survivor, worked tirelessly to 
bring Nazi war criminals to justice. By compiling testimonial evidence 
at his Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna, Austria, Wiesenthal 
provided trial material and evidence to the lawyers who prosecuted the 
Nazis for their crimes. Through his lifetime, Wiesenthal helped to 
bring as many as 1,100 Nazis, including Adolf Eichmann, to justice.
  For Wiesenthal--who lived by a standard of justice, not vengeance--
trying the Nazis for their war crimes brought moral restitution to the 
Jewish people who suffered so severely under the Nazi regime. 
Wiesenthal dedicated his life to preserving the memory of all those who 
lost their lives in the Holocaust, even when many in the world wanted 
to forget.
  The Holocaust was an act of brutal genocide and unprecedented evil. 
But those such as Simon Wiesenthal remind us that the cause of justice 
is never lost.

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