European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. February 6, 1987 the stars and stripes Psia 3 Nui  Wicor Plhal director of he jewish documentation censer in Vienna Austria reflects on his a Talnax Mission. Wiesenthal s Mission is to watch warn by de Leavis staff writer Heidel Becj nazi Hunter Simon wisc Plhal a 78 gives the impression of a Man with a id of unfinished business. His Mission begun after he survived four years in five world War ii concentration Camps serves As a message to War criminals of the past and future thai Only to Tali will save them from the clutches of the Law. The capture of Adolf Eichmann inc Man who in pc mended the final solution to rid nazi controlled lands of jews and fran Stangl commander of the extermination Camp Al Treblinka Poland threw wic Senchal into the limelight and earned him the title of nazi  his friends Call him the watcher and  today the the in tomes from no a i group. Vie Sci Hal said thursday in an interview after he spoke to More than 1.uiu people a a predawn prayer Bruu Fust at the  in i Alrick Henry Village. Eight Neona i groups Cist in  and others Are Active in the United slates. Canada and Austria lit said we must uki1 i Hess groups seriously enough to watch. We Hae informed she German government often about act Viik s of these groups in Germany but there s a difference of opinion about the effectiveness of these  extremists on the right and left in democracies Are nailing for a government or economic crisis to make great gains he warned. Technology and Hale combined is what led to the holocaust wies Nihal said. Had he technology existed in inc Middle Ages Here would have been a holocaust  Wie Semhal was born in tos Minlu a deeply religious family of  jewish businessmen in the Galicia province of Poland which now is part of the soviet Union. He worked an an architect uni he outbreak of world War 11. Arrested a the nails in 1941, wisc meal spent four years in to kudu Wald German and four other concentration campy escaping execution twite. His wife Cyla also was in a death Camp and each believed inc other to be dead. About do members of their families were murdered before the nazis were Defeated. When the americans liberated Wiesenthal from the Mau Hausen Camp in Austria he was 36 years old and weighed Only 90 pounds. He immediate began work with the army s War crimes division work from which he never has deviated. Since my liberation by the american army from the concentration Camp at Maui Hauson Austria Al most 40 years have passed during which i tried to devote my life and my Power to the memory of Hose who had nol been granted the mercy of  Wie history is not a bus ride. You can t pick the stops where you d like to disembark and wander through the  Simon Wiesenthal sent Hal said at inv prayer breakfast. During the interview he said praying is a technicality. Hut it s True that i be seen rabbis become atheists and atheists become religious in the deals Camps religious men asked. Why Are inn Occil babies punished in Auschwitz Poland heard a Man say. God is on vacation. He should a churn and see what s happen ing to his people so Many questions ? that was the big problem in the Camps there were so Many unanswered questions in 1946, Wiesenthal left the army to open his own jewish documentation Center in Lini Austria with 32 other former concentration Camp inmates. The Tenter is credited with aiding in the arrests of More than 1,000 War criminals. He closed tic Lin Center in the 50s, Bui inc israeli government asked him to continue his search Lor Adolf Eichmann. Wies Nihal prided the israelis with a photo and hi1 important tip thai Eichmann was in Argentina. After the excl Ininns trial More people began to be Lieve the Hunt fur War criminals was not Over so Wie sen Hal reopened his Documental Ion Penler in Vienna Austria in i a. Wiesenthal said lit got great satisfaction in tracking Down the Man who arrested Anne Frank. It took me five years to find thai Little Man. It All began when a Oung Man taunted me with the words so you re a Siyi Nunzir huh then Why Don t you find the Man who air sick Anne Frank at the Lime there was a  propaganda Campaign from the Light Wing underground thai the diary of Anne 1-Vaiix was a forgery Ilia the Jefts were using to blackmail inc germans into a Vinu Remi ution. All i had in go .111 was thai the Man was a police Tan in Vienna and Pirt of his name was sillier. Well it took five   i found Karl Silberbauer. When he was arrested lies Iid. Yes he remembered Anne prank Slie a is a Louie no with Black  Silberbauer did not stand trial but the proof of Anno Frank s Exi Meiki wis an important antidote Lon Ona i propaganda.  said. Asked to comment 0 1 he so called historian de Bale in German Aboul whether the Lolo Taus fats unique in history or was no worse than other cases of genocide Wieseiii Litile void the holocaust could not be compared to Oiler cases of genocide. He eau toned Ihal a country s history must be taken As a whole and nol selectively anything less was self deception which in Lime would have a great negative effect on those who Are deceived. History is Noi a bus ride. You can t Pirk the slops where you d like to disembark and wander through the Countryside. You have to Lake the whole trip and Only the whole trip is the  Wiesenthal said one must realize thai Adolf Miller not Only destroyed millions through genocide but Aho inc character of millions of germans. The wan see conference where they decided to murder 11 million jews in Europe involved legions of doctors lawyers and Mil tenants in addition to All those directly invoked. There s a Price in your is chs to be paid for the involvement in such  the nazis killed approximately 6 million jews be tween 1931 and l 45