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 Thu, Sep 22 2005, 5:04 pm
| Quote: | Simon Wiesenthal, who survived a dozen Nazi concentration camps and then spent his life hunting down and bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, has died at the age 96.
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baby's mom
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Thu, Sep 22 2005, 6:06 pm
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My in laws know him personally...what a man....Baruch dayan Emes...
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Tue, Sep 27 2005, 5:52 pm
Simon Wiesenthal once recounted that after the war, he was asked to make a minyan, but had refused. He had witnessed a "religious" man in the death camps who had smuggled in a siddur, and would "charge" fellow inmates a quarter of their meager rations to pray with it for 10 minutes. Wiesenthal was so sickened by this injustice that he could no longer pray.
But then, a young chaplain spoke to him and said, "Why should you focus on the man who rented the siddur at an exorbitant fee? Rather, focus on those pious Jews who were willing to give up their food in order to share a few minutes with God."
Wiesenthal agreed and joined the minyan.
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Wed, Sep 28 2005, 6:35 am
The chaplain was Rabbi Eliezer Silver.
Are you positive the story was with Wiesenthal? I've seen the story without a person's name (except Rabbi Silver's).
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