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 war had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place? In this important book, fifty-three ...
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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 war 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 genocide 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. Often surprising and always thought-provoking, The Sunflower will challenge you to define your beliefs about justice, compassion, and human responsibility.
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The first 1/3 of the book is what happened in the life of Simon Wiesenthal, the author, during WWII. It is presented in such a way that the reader has the feeling of being there but "filtered"so as not to receive the full horror of that time.
Wiesenthal invited a variety of notables to give their opinions of his quandry. It was impossible for me to skip even one.
It is a good study in what is forgiveness and how are we to forgive.
Ron Townsend
Jul 5, 2007
Forgiveness no
This book has a small book by Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi Hunter, about a visit with a dying Nazi SS soldier during his imprisonment in a concentration camp. Following the story are four score commentaries on the book by living and nonliving writers. Even though Mr. Wiesenthal had no idea at the time of the conversation that 89 of his relatives died in the camps he surely was a person to confess to. And even if the soldier couldn' t directly face his victims he did face Wiesenthal who would go on to find many of the Nazi perpetrators after the war. I personally feel that Wiesenthal did the right thing by listening to the soldier, walking away in silence, and then visiting the soldier's mother after the war. There are some things that cannot under any circumstances be forgiven. If all people go to heaven, Hitler, as a budding artist, should spend the rest of eternity painting the portraits of the victims of his mass genocide. However, I believe in hell and that's where this soldier and Hitler are. The fact that Simon Wiesenthal spent 96 years on this earth was God's plan and the fact that he listened to murderer's confession was also quite fitting. This book brings up many questions that are hard to answer with any authority. How would I understand the concentration camp Jew if I did not undergo it as he or she did. There is just not any way to rationalize forgiveness. And don't blame God. God gave us people like Wiesenthal and Frankl to deal with the horrors of the Holocaust. Let us be content in that.
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