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Simon Wiesenthal Dies at Age 96
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Simon Wiesenthal, who shared his experience of the Holocaust as a way to teach a lesson to humanity and spent decades hunting Nazi war criminals, has died at age 96.
He helped to find a leader of the Holocaust -- Adolf Eichmann -- who was hiding in Argentina, and brought the former Gestapo officer who arrested Anne Frank to justice. Wiesenthal said he kept hunting Nazis because, in another world, he might meet again with those the Nazis killed during World War II.
"There were a lot of skeptics," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, headquartered in Los Angeles. "People said, 'What are you doing? The war's over.
"He couldn't free himself from it…" Hier said. "He often said to me it wasn't an act of vengeance. He said, 'I'm doing to for my grandchildren because if the murderers of the past got away with it, the murderers of the future will get away with it.'"
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