In Memory: Simon Wiesenthal
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Simon Wiesenthal, who has died at the age of 96, was the conscience of the Holocaust. Not only was he determined to bring the perpetrators to justice, he spent the later decades of his life fighting anti-Semitism and prejudice against all people.

Wiesenthal, who himself lost 89 relatives in the Holocaust, spent more than 50 years hunting Nazi war criminals, speaking out against neo-Nazism and racism, and remembering the Jewish experience as a lesson for humanity. Through his work, he said, some 1100 Nazi war criminals were brought to justice. "When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it," he once said.

Here was a man of great dedication. He knew the pain of prejudice first-hand and was unwilling to let it get the upper hand.

May he rest in peace at last!