Did Columbus discover America while looking for a haven for Spain's persecuted Jews? Was Columbus Jewish? Five years of detective work and painstaking research in Spain, Portugal, the Vatican, and North Africa convinced Simon Wiesenthal, world-famous head of the Documentation Center in Vienna, that Columbus was of Jewish origin and that his 1492 voyage was actually a desperate search for a new homeland for the Jews.

Sails of Hope: The Secret Mission of Christopher Columbus

History

Wiesenthal, Simon

World

Macmillan

Justice, not vengeance

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

The Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Memoirs

McGraw=Hill

Relates the remarkable story of two Holocaust survivors who persuaded Wiesenthal not to pursue their Nazi tormentor, Werner Schultze

Max and Helen: A Remarkable True Love Story (English and German Edition)

Americas

William Morrow & Co.

The author describes his miraculous survival of the concentration camps of World War II, his efforts to track down former Nazis, and his pursuit of war criminals such as Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele

Justice Not Vengeance: Recollections

Grove Pr

A stirring biography of courage in the face of evil chronicles the life of Carl Lutz, a Swiss diplomat who saved 62,000 Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazis.

Dangerous Diplomacy: The Story of Carl Lutz, Rescuer of 62,000 Hungarian Jews

Tschuy, Theo

Eerdmans Pub.Co.

Every Day Remembrance Day: A Chronicle of Jewish Martyrdom (English and French Edition)

Henry Holt Co.

A young Jew listens silently while a dying Nazi begs absolution for taking part in the burning alive of an entire village of Jews. A moral query into the silent response of the Jew follows in the form of a symposium.

The Sunflower (English and German Edition)

Schocken Books

A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more. While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the way had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place? In this important book, fifty-three distinguished men and women respond to Wiesenthal's questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors, and victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China and Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal's questions are not limited to events of the past.

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition)

Military

Schocken

The Sunflower

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