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BRITAINNazi hunter Wiesenthal honored Britain has awarded an honorary knighthood to Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal for a "lifetime of service to humanity" by helping bring Holocaust perpetrators to justice, the Foreign Office said June 19. Wiesenthal, 95, spent the best part of five decades tracking down more than 1,000 Nazi war criminals responsible for the mass murder of Jews in World War II and played a role in the capture of one of Adolf Hitler's henchmen, Adolf Eichmann. Some 90 members of Wiesenthal's family perished in the Holocaust, but he was liberated from the Austrian concentration camp Mauthausen by U.S. soldiers in 1945.
The Japan Times Weekly: June 26, 2004 |
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