Simon Wiesenthal

A recent 20-something graduate of Williams College, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) has no plans for the future. He is seduced by a female friend of his parents, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft) and then falls in love with her daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross). The film opens with a young man staring out into space. The man is on an airplane flying to Los Angeles. He appears again in front of a fish tank with bubbles shooting in the background. A male voice asks him a question and then appears…

Like most writers Anne Bradstreet wrote about what she knew or what was important to her, and what was important to her were her strong beliefs in her puritan values and concerns she had as a puritan. Bradstreet’s poetry conveys the puritan values of not attaching yourself to worldly possessions. She also writes on seeking God and doing Gods will, and her concern of the brevity of life and the certainty of death is a “traditional” concern she had as a puritan, that she expressed in her poetry.…

1. What type of partnerships and alliances should your company consider? (Case company) The Cheesecake Factory is a successful restaurant service that currently has locations in the United States and in Puerto Rico. The company owns and operates 193 restaurants that are service provided under the Cheesecake Factory Brand Name, 13 of the locations are operated under the Grand Lux Café, and one location that is owned and operated under the name Rock Sugar Pan Asian Kitchen. (1) With…

“The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defense. Through this we can build, we must build, a defense against repetition” (Wiesenthal). Simon Wiesenthal has shown moral courage throughout his life, whether it comes from growing up or what he has become. He is a Jewish Austrian survivor of the holocaust and deciated is time to gathering information and tracking down fugitive Nazi war criminals such as Adolf Eichmann. By seeking justice and not…

The Sunflower is a very interesting story about Simon Wiesenthal and a peculiar interaction with Karl, a dying SS officer while he was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. In his memoir, Simon describes how Karl requested his attending nurse to find “a Jew” as he wanted to confess and at the same time, ask for forgiveness from his crimes against Jews. Karl seemed to have experienced a change of heart and understood his acts were morally wrong. His tale began with his childhood and upbringing…

Wiesenthal, Simon. The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness. New York: Schocken, 1976. The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness is a book written by Simon Wiesenthal. Simon Wiesenthal was an Austrian Nazi hunter and writer, he was also a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor. As I looked through the library this book caught my eye, I believe the sunflowers on the front cover are the reason behind it. Then, as I read the front cover the words pulled me in…

Wiesenthal was the one who caught Adolf Eichmann, the administrator of Hitler’s “Final Solution”. This Nazi catch was the most famous catch ever made. Wiesenthal also caught the commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka killing centers, Franz Stangl. This was also a massive catch in Wiesenthal’s career. Another big catch from Wiesenthal was Karl Silberbauer, the Gestapo agent who led the arrest of Anne Frank and her family. Wiesenthal has the most important catalog of…

Dimensions of Forgiveness, a jew named Simon Wiesenthal tells how there was a Nazi soldier who needed him to forgive…

Wiesenthal hoped for a tomorrow, which drove him to survive. He did not necessarily hope for a happy ending to his suffering, he merely hoped to see a tomorrow. Wiesenthal “still clung to the belief that the world one day would revenge itself on these brutes...the day would surely come when the Nazis would hang their heads as the Jews…

“Good Morning San Francisco” decided to dedicate a day to Simon Wiesenthal's book, The Sunflower. Wiesenthal decides to pose a question when he was placed in a room with a dying SS man. The SS man, Karl, asked Wiesenthal for forgiveness of what he had done. Wiesenthal’s choice was silence, but as the story continues and his struggle goes on of being haunted by this man he poses a question. Should Karl the dying SS man be forgiven for the murders he has committed? Tanner: Good morning San…