Diligence Joseph Wechsberg,
Papadopoulos Publications, May 2021
The Greek version of the memoirs of Simon Wiesenthal, entitled "The Murderers Among Us", the original version of which was released in Great Britain in 1967, has been released.
When the Allies liberated the Mauthausen concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was among the survivors inside a building full of corpses. Losing his wife and family to the war and the gas chambers, Wiesenthal made it his life's goal to find and capture the Nazi war criminals who were scattered and hiding around the world in order to bring them to justice.
Wiesenthal went down in history as the man who discovered Adolf Eichmann's hideout in South America, as a persistent, tireless, perhaps over-committed researcher. He was called an "obsessive avenger" and a "relentless hunter" of the Nazis, but his portrait by Joseph Wechsberg, a journalist of The Newyorkers, he portrays quite the opposite: a compassionate man who did not hesitate to put his life and mental health at risk, to sacrifice everything, in order to protect his fellow men and ensure that justice was served. And all this in defiance of the remaining supporters of the Nazis, some governments that did not look favorably on his effort, but also the greatest enemy in the passage of time: oblivion.
A gripping story that may read as a crime thriller, but it is much more than that.