《Simon Wiesenthal : The Life and Legends》是一本Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Tom Segev，本書首次全面記錄了傳奇納粹獵人西蒙·維森塔爾(SimonWiesenthal)的傳記，也是對一個人的精彩性格研究。維森塔爾的一生有一部分是虛構的，但他完全致力於確保納粹對自己的罪行負責，並確保歐洲猶太人的毀滅永遠不會被忘記。
基本介紹
- 書名：Simon Wiesenthal : The Life and Legends
- 作者：Tom Segev
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9780385519465
內容簡介,圖書目錄,作者簡介,
內容簡介
This first fully documented biography of SimonWiesenthal, the legendary Nazi hunter, is also a brilliantcharacter study of a man whose life was part invention but whollydedicated to ensuring both that the Nazis be held responsible fortheir crimes and that the destruction of European Jewry never beforgotten.
Like most Jews in Eastern Europe on the eve ofHitler’s invasion of Poland, twenty-four-year-old Simon Wiesenthaldid not grasp the nature of the Nazi threat. But six years later,when a skeletal Wiesenthal was liberated from the concentrationcamp at Mauthausen, he fully fathomed the crimes of the Nazis.Within days he had assembled a list of nearly 150 Nazi warcriminals, the first of dozens of such lists he would make over alifetime as a Nazi hunter. A hero in the eyes of many, Wiesenthalwas also attacked for his unrelenting pursuit of the past, whenothers preferred to forget.
For this new biography, rich in newsworthy revelations, historianand journalist Tom Segev has obtained access to Wiesenthal’sprivate papers and to sixteen archives, including records of theU.S., Israeli, Polish, and East German secret services. Segev isable to reveal the intriguing secrets of Wiesenthal’s life,including his stunning role in the capture of Adolf Eichmann, hisrelationship with Israel’s Mossad, his controversial investigativetechniques, his unlikely friendships with Kurt Waldheim and AlbertSpeer, and the nature of his rivalry with Elie Wiesel.
Segev’s challenge in writing this biography was Wiesenthal’s owncomplicated relationship to truth. Wiesenthal told many versions ofhis life, his suffering in the camps, and his involvement with thearrest of individual Nazis. Segev shows that in order to gain theinformation he sought and twist the arms of reluctant governmentfigures, Wiesenthal needed to seem more influential than he reallywas.
For two generations of Americans, Simon Wiesenthal was a Jewishsuperhero—depicted on film by Ben Kingsley and Laurence Olivier—andthe muse for a Frederick Forsyth thriller. Now Segev demonstratesthat the truth of Wiesenthal’s existence is as compelling as thefiction. Simon Wiesenthal is an unforgettable life of one ofthe great men of the twentieth century.
圖書目錄
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 CriedSometimes"
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 theGestapo 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
作者簡介
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.
