This extraordinary book is Wiesenthal's own story and a profile of him by Joseph Wechsberg, a well-known writer for The New Yorker. His own loss and the horrors he had witnessed made Wiesenthal vow to spend the rest of his life bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. His wife was lost in the vast confusion of postwar Europe, the rest of his family victims of the gas chambers. Simon Wiesenthal was lying in a ward full of corpses when Allied troops reached Mauthausen Concentration Camp. The Murderers Among Us is an inspiring book - the stirring life of a man who pursued justice in the heyday of expediency. Rodin Simon Wiesenthal.” Some wear to the cloth and dampstaining to the page edges, very good in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Mr. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967.įirst edition of Wiesenthal’s autobiography. Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story.
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