It was co-organized by UNESCO and the Simon
Wiesenthal Centre.
The Simon
Wiesenthal Center urges the editors to apologize to its readers, the Jewish community and the State of Israel.
As a Jew who survived the Holocaust through both good luck and acts of honor by decent Germans,
Wiesenthal, who died in 2005, was an outspoken critic of the idea of the "collective guilt" of the German people, a concept that had been embraced by many Jews immediately after the war.
Shimon Samuels is the director of international relations at the Simon
Wiesenthal Centre in Paris and an editor of Antisemitism: The Generic Hatred--Essays in Memory of Simon
Wiesenthal (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007).
Frank Gehry's exit from the project provides the
Wiesenthal Center a face-saving way to reconsider its plans, APN concluded
We take what the Simon
Wiesenthal Center says very seriously and we will very thoroughly examine the questions brought up by the Simon
Wiesenthal Center.
The Simon
Wiesenthal Centre plans to release the most-wanted list today and to open a media campaign in South America this summer, highlighting the pounds 243,000 reward for Heim's arrest posted by the centre along with Germany and Austria.
Longtime champion against antisemitism
Wiesenthal (1909-2005) is remembered by colleagues from around the world not only in personal tributes, but also articles about antisemitism.
Other speakers included
Wiesenthal Center founder Rabbi Marvin Hier and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
To Pat Lowther," Christine
Wiesenthal writes, "goes the dubious if not fatal, distinction of having accrued the most sensationally tragic of contemporary literary reputations" (3).
Wiesenthal, then, entered this fray with no political base, virtually no moral or financial support, and bereft of any professional training in the investigative and legal domains.
