[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20804]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      REMEMBERING SIMON WIESENTHAL

  (Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Madam Speaker, I too rise to reflect on the 
life and contributions of Simon Wiesenthal who passed away 2 days ago 
at the age of 96.
  Simon Wiesenthal is known by many to be the ``conscience of the 
Holocaust,'' for after the atrocities ended, he spent his entire life 
researching and locating former Nazis to bring them to justice.
  Throughout the course of the Holocaust, Simon Wiesenthal and his wife 
lost a total of 89 family members. American soldiers liberated him from 
the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1945. He was barely alive, 
weighing less than 100 pounds.
  As a prisoner in 12 concentration camps, Simon Wiesenthal memorized 
the names of his perpetrators and later he embarked on his mission to 
bring them to justice. He created the Jewish Documentation Center to 
assemble evidence for trial. His most famous cases included the capture 
of Adolf Eichmann, the man who supervised the implementation of the 
``Final Solution.'' Wiesenthal also helped locate the Gestapo officer 
who arrested Anne Frank. In total, he helped trace some 1,100 Nazis.
  In a conversation with a former concentration camp inmate, Wiesenthal 
explained, when we come to the other world and meet the millions of 
Jews who died in the camps and they ask us, What have you done, there 
will be many answers. But I will say, we did not forget you.
  Now it is our turn to say to Mr. Wiesenthal, we will not forget you. 
We will honor his life and his work by continuing to bring perpetrators 
to justice and continuing to fight intolerance and anti-Semitism 
wherever it exists.

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