Polish Holocaust survivors and top politicians expressed regret over the death of the world's most famous Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who has passed away in Vienna at the age of 96.
The last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Marek Edelman called for the Wiesenthal Centre to continue its work hunting down Nazi war criminals.
Poland’s outgoing President Aleksander Kwasniewski also praised Wiesenthal for his life-long commitment to truth and justice. Co-chairman of Poland’s Council of Christians and Jews Stanislaw Krajewski called Wiesenthal the "conscience of the Holocaust".
The Jewish hunter of the Nazi regime's most elusive war criminals spent almost six decades collecting information on those considered most responsible for the killing of 6 million Jews during World War II. One of his biggest successes was to locate Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps in occupied Poland, who was hiding in Brazil. Wiesenthal said he had helped track down 1,100 Nazis by the time he retired in April 2003.
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