Simon Wiesenthal

“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…

of an innocent individual, one cannot be forgiven on any level. The act of taking away a person’s life is ultimate and cannot be undone. In The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal demonstrates the essence of forgiveness through a situation as a holocaust survivor. Simon faced a situation where he met a SS soldier, Karl who was facing death and asked Simon for forgiveness due to a guilty conscious. Research from Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo are used to demonstrates the true intentions for Karl’s…

wrongdoing. After someone has been wronged, forgiveness is the act of releasing the negative feelings one harbors towards the offender. When Simon Wiesenthal, author of The Sunflower, was in a concentration camp during World War II, a Nazi on his deathbed had Wiesenthal brought into his hospital room to act as his confessor. The Nazi, Karl, told Wiesenthal of the atrocities he committed against the Jews and asks for his forgiveness. Weisenthal decided to withhold forgiveness, but he asked many…

memoir of Simon Wiesenthal reveals a difficult time in his life when he was forced to make a difficult choice about the telling the truth and forgiving someone who has done wrong. He ends the excerpt by leaving the reader with a profound moral question: what would we have done? I would like to think of myself as a kind and forgiving person because no one has wronged me so severely that I felt I could punish them forever. However, if I were to mentally switch places with Simon Wiesenthal, and it…

twenty-one year old Nazi soldier, begs Jewish prisoner Simon Weisenthal for forgiveness, Wiesenthal responds with silence. Unsure of the his neither refusal nor acceptance to grant the soldier his forgiveness, Wiesenthal asks the reader what they would do. In Book Two of The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness, fifty-three responses from varying ethnicities, experiences, religions, and countries yielded their opinions on what Wiesenthal should or should not have done,…

In the autobiography The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal, Simon, who’s the main character went through much heartache and confusion; throughout being separated from his family to being put into concentration/work camps. Simon witnessed many people brutally slaughtered, including close friends. While working one day on the line a nurse pulled Simon aside and took him to a school building that had been turned into a hospital. There he saw a man whose face was completely wrapped in bandages. This…

written by Simon Wiesenthal, Simon is in a constant battle with himself if he should have forgiven Karl for his crimes and the Nazi soldiers for his life. Everyone he knows or encounters have told him something different but never understood if he should have forgiven Karl or not. Deep down Simon knows that Karl felt sorrow for his errors he has done. At the end of his memoir, Wiesenthal asks us, the readers, what would we have done if we were in the situation he was in. I believe that Simon…

Imagine you are a prisoner in a nazi concentration camp, and a dying soldier asks for your forgiveness. How would you respond? This is the situation a young Simon Wiesenthal was put in during his time in a concentration camp, afterwards simon reached out to many different people from many backgrounds and experiences in life. And he had them respond with what they would have done. I have chosen 6 of these people and an article on forgiveness to talk about their opinions, and my personal opinion…

“God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.” quoted Simon Wiesenthal. Simon Wiesenthal was a survivor of the Holocaust, which gives him a great amount of ethos in his quote. Another survivor of the Holocaust, Eliezer Wiesel, had the same thoughts. Eliezer, Elie as he is referred to, published a novel titled Night, which showed his struggles throughout the Holocaust. Elie was a Jewish boy who had wished to study Kabbalah prior to the Holocaust. According to Oxford Dictionaries, Kabbalah is…

predicament Simon Wiesenthal faces when a dying Nazi soldier calls a Jew, any Jew to his bedside confesses all his transgressions and sins to him while on his death bed. Smail Balic knows how Simon feels and can understand what he did because he would have done the same. He believes that if Simon would of forgave him and he is not in the right place to do so. If he would of forgave him for what the Nazi soldier did, he would have only forgiven him on Simons behalf not for everyone. Simon…