- Page 4 and 5: CONTENTS Preface BOOK ONE The Sun
- Page 6 and 7: Edward H. Flannery Eva Fleischner M
- Page 8 and 9: Cardinal Franz König Harold S. Kus
- Page 10 and 11: Matthieu Ricard Joshua Rubenstein S
- Page 12 and 13: PREFACE When the first American edi
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- Page 17 and 18: What was it Arthur said last night?
- Page 19 and 20: they splintered into small groups,
- Page 21: If so, why were some murderers and
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- Page 27 and 28: Our gaze roamed the crowds on the p
- Page 29 and 30: last look at the forest of sunflowe
- Page 31 and 32: We turned left. I knew the way well
- Page 33 and 34: designed as a prison gate. They had
- Page 35 and 36: The other soldiers didn't seem to s
- Page 37 and 38: work with Derdacki—a design for a
- Page 39 and 40: I obeyed. His almost bloodless hand
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- Page 43 and 44: All the atrocities and tortures tha
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- Page 47 and 48: spirits. Oh, the jokes we used to p
- Page 49 and 50: see symbols in everything. It was a
- Page 51 and 52: He took a deep breath. Then a sip o
- Page 53 and 54: “As we approached I could see the
- Page 55 and 56: forget—least of all the child. It
- Page 57 and 58: constantly warned Eli's parents to
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- Page 61 and 62: “Our rest period did not last lon
- Page 63 and 64: “In that moment I saw the burning
- Page 65 and 66: the fact that he spoke to me was a
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was better to keep my mouth shut ab
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career when the war broke out. Duri
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He now had me where he wanted me: I
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His father brought him to me in his
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though the Poles were now themselve
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to prove they were earning their sp
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swallowed it ravenously. Soldiers s
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failed. Then one day the extra labo
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whole stock of drugs consisted of i
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“Bolek,” I insisted, “you who
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“Maybe. But had he come to the ri
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At that time the world was seeking
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confronted the mother I did not kno
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move to my sister's, but I don't wa
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She could not tell me enough. I had
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Germans to find out who was guilty.
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My picture of Karl was almost compl
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And later when I met his mother I a
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tool of war. Over 10,000 individual
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I explicitly and emphatically rejec
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JEAN AMÉRY My high regard for your
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part in the extermination, he knew
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SMAIL BALI Now that nearly thirty y
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shape the views of the masses. One
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epresentative of German Nazism, or
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Even if Wiesenthal believed that he
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except when the state declares an a
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forgiveness is forbidden. Judaism t
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ROBERT MCAFEE BROWN Warsaw, 1979. W
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after twenty-seven years in jail, p
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HARRY JAMES CARGAS I am afraid not
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ROBERT COLES We are told at the end
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inconceivable to us. Still, with ca
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THE DALAI LAMA I believe one should
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EUGENE J. FISHER Simon Wiesenthal's
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Secondly, I believe it is the heigh
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a prayer or two that the efforts in
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Simon's sleep was not to remain so
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unanimity on such issues is rarely,
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course; it has invariably led to an
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elates to the concept of atonement,
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MATTHEW FOX Simon Wiesenthal is a t
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the dying but guilt-ridden soldier.
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allows these sins to take root and
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all-to-hell type, the Nazi beast. D
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increments in his humanity add up,
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the community that gives him that r
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Did the Germans actually feed into
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even saw one, and whatever atrociti
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HANS HABE On reading The Sunflower
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the question of punishment. If Karl
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murderer or not, for Providence rel
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those Jews who tried to isolate Ger
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ARTHUR HERTZBERG This personal hist
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had carried out the murders. On the
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ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL Over fifty y
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SUSANNAH HESCHEL I would have done
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JOSÉ HOBDAY The question, “What
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CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS The Sunflower, w
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these are explanations. They are no
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confessing to an unknown Jew? The J
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had also reached the same point, th
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Archbishop of Vienna Reading about
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HAROLD S. KUSHNER I am not sure the
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while he's living it up with his ne
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Although many have hailed the since
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the sinner to eternal damnation bef
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in absolving your man, and you woul
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level: from within themselves, they
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forgiveness. Citizens of Germany, A
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deathbed moment of crystal clarity.
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outsiders, cynicism and atheism hav
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e sure, the conviction that we gain
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ERICH H. LOEWY Anyone who has never
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Of course, Wiesenthal could not for
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HERBERT MARCUSE I think I would hav
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“What would I have done?” becom
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the cheapening of grace. A second f
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CYNTHIA OZICK
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2. THE SOURCES OF PITY Pity is not
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But that is a misunderstanding. Ven
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4. MORAL TENDERNESS, MORAL RESPONSI
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greatest moral philosopher of the a
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more complex process, especially in
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interventionist possibilities can n
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DENNIS PRAGER I am a religious Jew
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murderer, not his punishment (let a
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has been taken to mean “pray for
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Pulling away from the Khmer Rouge l
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TERENCE PRITTIE Men who are dying e
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MATTHIEU RICARD For a Buddhist, for
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JOSHUA RUBENSTEIN As we near the cl
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We know today, if Simon did not at
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SIDNEY SHACHNOW Having spent most o
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from communism. I was prepared to g
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extraordinary happened, something I
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human beings. And yet, those eyes a
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themselves into a collective and un
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mission. But if that young man had
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he have the right to ask for forgiv
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treat the man as a monster who had
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nasty lie. As a child survivor of t
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give up prosecuting those who have
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seems to be denying to the Jews the
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Forgiveness is not a simple, discre
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JOSEPH TELUSHKIN Was this young Naz
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that if a murderer accepts his puni
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specifically human activity which c
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What would I have done? Our preside
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left the Jewish people still strugg
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HARRY WU Reading Simon Wiesenthal's
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out of the barracks and braced ours
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CONTRIBUTORS SVEN ALKALAJ is the am
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volumes); The Moral Life of Childre
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ecipient of the Herzl Prize, his wo
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He has taught at the Jewish Theolog
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at the Catholic Theological Union i
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died in 1981. MANÈS SPERBER, Frenc
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A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR SIMON WIESE
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Other SCHOCKEN BOOKS of Related Int
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