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This first fully documented biography of Simon

Wiesenthal, the legendary Nazi hunter, is also a brilliant

character study of a man whose life was part invention but wholly

dedicated to ensuring both that the Nazis be held responsible for

their crimes and that the destruction of European Jewry never be

forgotten.

Like most Jews in Eastern Europe on the eve of

Hitler’s invasion of Poland, twenty-four-year-old Simon Wiesenthal

did not grasp the nature of the Nazi threat. But six years later,

when a skeletal Wiesenthal was liberated from the concentration

camp at Mauthausen, he fully fathomed the crimes of the Nazis.

Within days he had assembled a list of nearly 150 Nazi war

criminals, the first of dozens of such lists he would make over a

lifetime as a Nazi hunter. A hero in the eyes of many, Wiesenthal

was also attacked for his unrelenting pursuit of the past, when

others preferred to forget.

For this new biography, rich in newsworthy revelations, historian

and journalist Tom Segev has obtained access to Wiesenthal’s

private papers and to sixteen archives, including records of the

U.S., Israeli, Polish, and East German secret services. Segev is

able to reveal the intriguing secrets of Wiesenthal’s life,

including his stunning role in the capture of Adolf Eichmann, his

relationship with Israel’s Mossad, his controversial investigative

techniques, his unlikely friendships with Kurt Waldheim and Albert

Speer, and the nature of his rivalry with Elie Wiesel.

Segev’s challenge in writing this biography was Wiesenthal’s own

complicated relationship to truth. Wiesenthal told many versions of

his life, his suffering in the camps, and his involvement with the

arrest of individual Nazis. Segev shows that in order to gain the

information he sought and twist the arms of reluctant government

figures, Wiesenthal needed to seem more influential than he really

was.

For two generations of Americans, Simon Wiesenthal was a Jewish

superhero—depicted on film by Ben Kingsley and Laurence Olivier—and

the muse for a Frederick Forsyth thriller. Now Segev demonstrates

that the truth of Wiesenthal’s existence is as compelling as the

fiction. Simon Wiesenthal is an unforgettable life of one of

the great men of the twentieth century.

Introduction: The Glass Box

1. "Eichmann Is My Passion"

2. "During That Period, We Never Took Hitler Seriously"

3. "See You on the Soap Shelf"

4. "Who Knows Her? Who Has Seen Her?"

5. "The Duty of an Austrian Patriot"

6. "That's How I Became a Stamp Collector"

7. "I Hope You're Not Coming to See Me"

8. "I Always Said He's in Buenos Aires"

9. "Sleuth with 6 Million Clients"

10. "You May Have Thought He Was Happy, but He Also Cried

Sometimes"

11. "A Huge Mass of Rotten Flesh"

12. "Auschwitz Lines"

13. "What Would You Have Done?"

14. "Kreisky Is Going Mad"

15. "Better Than Any Monster"

16. "Mr. Wiesenthal, I Claim, Had Different Relations with the

Gestapo from Mine"

17. "It's Not Easy to Be My Wife"

18. "The Children... Were Actually the Same Children"

19. "Only So That Mengele's Name Would Not Be Forgotten"

20. "As If I Were Already Dead"

21. "Sleazenthal"

22. "WO All Made Mistakes in Our Youth"

A&nowledgments

Notes

Index

Tom Segev, who writes a weekly column in

Ha’aretz, Israel’s leading daily newspaper, is the author of

The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust and

other pathbreaking books, including One Palestine, Complete,

which was named one of the ten best books of 2000 by the New

York Times Book Review. He lives in Jerusalem.

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1.

"Eichmann Is My Passion"

1. Between Vengeance and Justice

Adolf Eichmann was the most senior Nazi official to speak to Jewish

leaders before the war, first in Berlin and afterward in Vienna and

Prague. At first he worked in the Nazi party's security service and

later in the Reich Central Security Office. He also talked to

several representatives of the Zionist movement. The object of

these contacts was to arrange for the transfer of Jews from Germany

and some of the territories conquered by the Nazis. As of 1941,

Eichmann directed the deportation of the Jews of Europe, first to

ghettos and then to systematic annihilation in the death

camps.

In January 1942, Eichmann attended an interdepartmental conference

held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss the organization of

the extermination. He was never a maker of policy; he implemented

it. He was one of those Nazi killers who as a rule did their work

sitting behind a desk, but he also took many trips into the field.

In his memoirs he mentioned an incident that occurred near the city

of Minsk in the German-occupied Soviet republic of Byelorussia. As

a group of Jews was being readied for execution, Eichmann wrote, he

saw a woman with a baby in her arms. He tried to pull the infant

away to save it, he wrote, but someone opened fire and it was

killed. Fragments of its brain splashed onto his leather coat, and

his driver helped him clean them off. The Jews, who never

encountered a more senior Nazi than him, looked upon him and Hitler

as the two Adolfs who perpetrated the Holocaust.

The leaders of the Jewish people kept a watch on Eichmann's

activities. Three months after the war broke out, Ben-Gurion

recorded in his diary a report he had received from a

Czechoslovakian Zionist official, to the effect that the condition

of the Jews in Prague had deteriorated greatly since Eichmann

arrived there. Ben-Gurion noted that Eichmann was directly

subordinate to the head of the Gestapo, Heinrich Himmler. This was

not accurate, but it reflected the prevalent notion that Eichmann

was a very senior Nazi official.

Indeed, as late as April 1944, Eichmann appeared to be omnipotent,

as he initiated negotiations that were to decide not only the fate

of Hungary's Jews, but perhaps also the outcome of the whole war.

Some of the leaders of Budapest's Jews, among them Rezso Kastner,

heard him offer them a deal: the lives of a million Jews in

exchange for an assortment of goods, including several thousand

trucks. Kastner said that Eichmann had told him the Jews were being

sent to be exterminated at Auschwitz, but that he, Eichmann, was

prepared to stop this. The proposal was conveyed to the Western

Allies by an emissary.

The story of the "blood for trucks" affair was retold many times,

and although fewer than two thousand Jews were saved as a result of

a deal between Kastner and Eichmann, the proposition contributed to

the inflation of Eichmann's image and his identification with the

Holocaust. "He is the guiltiest of all in the extermination of

millions of Jews in Europe," wrote a Jewish journalist in Palestine

soon after the war ended.

The Jewish Agency, which functioned as the government of the Jewish

state in the making, began to collect material on the Nazi

criminals toward the end of the war from refugees who had managed

to reach Palestine, and from other sources. Based on this

information, in June 1945 a standard form for war criminals was

filled out at the Agency under Eichmann's name; out of several

hundred such forms filled out, Eichmann was listed as the most

senior of the wanted Nazis. The information was very incomplete and

flawed. Even his first name was missing, and he was erroneously

listed as having been born in Sarona, a German colony next to Tel

Aviv. In the explanatory remarks, he was accurately described as

one of those responsible for the annihilation of the Jews.

A few weeks later, one of the heads of the World Jewish Congress,

an international federation of Jewish communities and

organizations, petitioned the American prosecutor at the Nuremberg

war crimes trials and requested that steps be taken to arrest

Eichmann and prosecute him along with the prominent Nazis being

tried there.6 But Eichmann had vanished. Straight after the war,

various people had begun searching for him: emissaries from the

Jewish community in Palestine, American intelligence agents, and

Holocaust survivors, among them Simon Wiesenthal. It was a joint

effort and though not always well coordinated, not to mention

amateurish, reckless, and replete with mistakes, it was informed

entirely by inner passion and devotion to the goal.

Accurate details about Eichmann's life and even a hint as to where

he might be hiding were obtained without much difficulty from his

deputy, Dieter Wisliceny, who had been arrested in May 1945 by

American soldiers. He provided detailed testimony on the

destruction of the Jews, placing most of the responsibility on

Eichmann's shoulders. Some leaders of the Zionist movement who were

in Europe at the time met with Wisliceny; one of them was Gideon

Ruffer, who would later change his family name to Rafael and become

a top Israeli Foreign Ministry official. What seems to have

interested Ruffer most was the cooperation between Eichmann and the

Grand Mufti of Palestine, Haj Amin el-Husseini. Wisliceny was

extradited to Czechoslovakia, where, in Bratislava Prison, he gave

a statement to Arthur Piernikraz, an Austrian-born emissary from

Palestine who went by the name of "Pier" and was later to change

his name to Asher Ben Natan. In days to come he became one of the

heads of the Israeli defense establishment, and the Jewish state's

first ambassador to Germany.

Pier was based in Vienna, where he was one of the commanders of the

Briha-the operation for getting the Jews who had survived the

Holocaust out of Eastern Europe and sending them to Palestine

(

briha

is Hebrew for "flight" or "escape"). His mission was

not to hunt Nazi criminals, but he nevertheless harbored a hope of

trapping Eichmann. Wisliceny told him that Eichmann's chauffer was

in detention. The driver was interrogated and gave the names of a

number of women whom Eichmann was friendly with. Wisliceny also

reported that Eichmann had left his wife and three sons in a

village called Altaussee. This was the most significant information

that existed then.

In Vienna, Pier had agreed to assist a refugee from the Polish city

of Radom to find the murderers of his family and the other Jews

there. The man's name was Tadek (Tuvia) Friedman. Pier gave him a

little money and Friedman opened a "center for documentation." His

aim was to take revenge on the murderers of Radom's Jews. Pier

instructed him to concentrate on one man. "He is the greatest

murderer of them all," he told Friedman, and Friedman began the

search for Adolf Eichmann.

Wiesenthal heard about Eichmann only after the war, and he later

recalled precisely from whom he had heard the name and when: from

Aharon Hoter-Yishai, an officer in the Jewish Brigade (which had

fought the Axis as part of the British army) and a well-known

attorney in Palestine, in July 1945. Wiesenthal, who had begun

public activities on behalf of the refugees, was then in touch with

the American occupation forces and was helping them locate Nazi war

criminals. On one or two occasions, he traveled to Nuremberg to

attend the trials.

One of the Briha agents, Avraham Weingarten, put him in touch with

Pier, and not long after that Gideon Ruffer also came to see him in

Linz. They brought with them the list of Nazi criminals drawn up by

the Jewish Agency, and told him that Eichmann was the most

important of all.

Eichmann's family had settled in Linz when he was a child. His

parents had an electrical goods store on one of the city's main

streets. It still bore their family name after the war, and finding

them was no problem. But Wiesenthal, who lived nearby in a rented

room, was not sure that they were the same Eichmanns. He found out

for sure by chance, as he relates in his memoirs. One evening, his

landlady was serving him tea, and when she placed the tray on his

desk she glanced at the papers lying there.

Her eye caught the name Eichmann. "Eichmann? Isn't that the SS

general who persecuted the Jews?" she asked inquisitively, and

mentioned that his parents lived nearby. Wiesenthal was excited and

he asked her if she was sure. "What do you mean, sure? Don't I know

my own neighbors?" the landlady replied. The next day, the police

questioned Eichmann's parents, but they said they had no idea where

he was.

It may have been this development that led Pier to write to Ruffer,

"In the matter of Eichmann, we have begun to address it. So far,

only Wiesenthal has done anything, because I was away for a week in

Prague and Bratislava. Yesterday he told me that there has been

some progress, and that I'd get a letter from him today. In two or

three days' time I'll know more." But Pier had also taken action.

On the basis of the information divulged by Wisliceny, he sent one

of the Jewish refugees in Vienna to get to know one of Eichmann's

female friends, in order to get a photograph of him. The man was

Manus Diamant, from Katowice in Poland, who was then twenty-four

years old.

During the war, Diamant roamed from city to city; the Nazis had

killed his mother and his father. After the war he found himself in

Vienna, where he met Tuvia Friedman and through him reached Pier.

The passion for revenge raged within him. He had known Eichmann's

name since 1943. A handsome young man, Diamant posed as an SS

officer from Holland and set out to search for Eichmann's

girlfriend. It was not an easy task, and when he found her he could

not get her to show him her photo album right away. But eventually

he managed to get a photograph of Eichmann out of her.

Pier sent Diamant to Linz to work with Wiesenthal, who showed him

the Eichmann family's electrical goods store. Diamant began to keep

an eye on it. Eichmann's brother also worked there. One day, the

brother set out in the direction of the...

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Praise for Tom Segev's

Simon

Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends

"Mr.

Segev, justly celebrated for his histories of formative moments of

the state of Israel, is as careful a biographer as he is an

historian....Gripping yet sober, this meticulous portrait of a

complicated man is unlikely to be bettered."

—

The Economist

"[A] meticulous yet forceful new biography...[Segev's] book

delivers not merely an intimate account of Wiesenthal's life and

times, but also judicious examinations of the many controversial

and little-known aspects of that life....It is a serious pleasure

to imagine a new generation of readers discovering his life in this

careful telling."

—

The New York Times

"Segev reveals…a man of profound conflict and contradiction, a

lightning rod for controversy and recrimination, but unquestionably

a crucial figure in the struggle to retrieve and preserve the

evidence of the Holocaust….Segev himself sticks to the ‘true

story’. That’s his stock-in-trade and that’s what makes all of his

work so compelling. But telling the unvarnished truth ultimately

honors the man he is writing about, and Wiesenthal emerges from

Segev’s book as an even richer and more consequential character

than the one he invented for himself."

—

Los Angeles Times

“Segev is one of the world’s great investigative

reporters—in a class with bloodhounds like Seymour Hersh and the

late David Halberstam….The real achievement of this warts-and-all

biography [is] that truth, justice, and memory are the province not

of saints, but of flawed human beings.”

—Susan Jacoby,

The Washington Post

"Tom Segev has produced a biography that is a model of fascinating

de*ion and measured analysis."

—The Sunday Times

(UK)

"Segev paints a vivid portrait of this human dynamo who made it his

life’s work to make people not only confront and remember the Nazi

genocide but also to punish as many of its perpetrators as

possible."

—

San Francisco Chronicle

"A brilliant and gripping account of an extraordinary life. It

draws upon extensive research to offer new insights into the

complex personality as well as the notable achievements of Simon

Wiesenthal."

—Sir Ian Kershaw, author of

Hitler: A Biography

Praise for Earlier Books by Tom Segev

The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust

“Richly documented and written with great passion.”

—Elie Wiesel,

Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Superb . . . Throws new light on the central trauma of Israeli

society, and the uses and abuses of this trauma for political

manipulation. I, for one, learned from this book that, in order to

survive, societies must learn not only to remember but also to

forget.”

—Amos Elon, author of

The Israelis: Founders and Sons

“Indispensable reading for anyone interested in Israel’s self-image

and identity . . . Any further discussion of the Holocaust must

confront Tom Segev’s work.”

—George L. Mosse, author of

Nazi Culture

1967: Israel and the Year That Transformed the Middle

East

“A marvelous achievement . . . Anyone curious about the

extraordinary six days of Arab-Israeli war will learn much from

it.”

—

The Economist

“Tom Segev’s

1967

offers a brilliant de*ion of the

Six-Day War in its widest context . . . This is probably the best

book on those most fateful days in the history of Israel and the

Middle East.”

—Saul Friedl?nder, author of

The Years of Extermination: Nazi

Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945

One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British

Mandate

“The best single account of Palestine under the British mandate . .

. This will doubtlessly become the authoritative text for the

pre-state history of Israel.”

—Omer Bartov,

New York Times Book Review

“A brilliant, truthful, and compassionate book . . . In all the

vast literature about Palestine/Israel, this is the only book with

equal insight into all of the protagonists.”

—Arthur Hertzberg, author of

Jews: The Essence and Character of

a People

书籍介绍

This first fully documented biography of Simon Wiesenthal, the legendary Nazi hunter, is also a brilliant character study of a man whose life was part invention but wholly dedicated to ensuring both that the Nazis be held responsible for their crimes and that the destruction of European Jewry never be forgotten.

Like most Jews in Eastern Europe on the eve of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, twenty-four-year-old Simon Wiesenthal did not grasp the nature of the Nazi threat. But six years later, when a skeletal Wiesenthal was liberated from the concentration camp at Mauthausen, he fully fathomed the crimes of the Nazis. Within days he had assembled a list of nearly 150 Nazi war criminals, the first of dozens of such lists he would make over a lifetime as a Nazi hunter. A hero in the eyes of many, Wiesenthal was also attacked for his unrelenting pursuit of the past, when others preferred to forget.

For this new biography, rich in newsworthy revelations, historian and journalist Tom Segev has obtained access to Wiesenthal’s private papers and to sixteen archives, including records of the U.S., Israeli, Polish, and East German secret services. Segev is able to reveal the intriguing secrets of Wiesenthal’s life, including his stunning role in the capture of Adolf Eichmann, his relationship with Israel’s Mossad, his controversial investigative techniques, his unlikely friendships with Kurt Waldheim and Albert Speer, and the nature of his rivalry with Elie Wiesel.

Segev’s challenge in writing this biography was Wiesenthal’s own complicated relationship to truth. Wiesenthal told many versions of his life, his suffering in the camps, and his involvement with the arrest of individual Nazis. Segev shows that in order to gain the information he sought and twist the arms of reluctant government figures, Wiesenthal needed to seem more influential than he really was.

For two generations of Americans, Simon Wiesenthal was a Jewish superhero—depicted on film by Ben Kingsley and Laurence Olivier—and the muse for a Frederick Forsyth thriller. Now Segev demonstrates that the truth of Wiesenthal’s existence is as compelling as the fiction. Simon Wiesenthal is an unforgettable life of one of the great men of the twentieth century.