"When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren’t able to kill millions of people and get away with it." -Simon Wiesenthal
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies is a non-profit human rights organization committed to countering racism and antisemitism, and to promoting the principles of tolerance, social justice and Canadian democratic values through advocacy and education (taken from the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies website). The Holocaust was an organized and systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews. The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in 1933 felt "racially superior" to Jews and agreed that they were a threat to the German racial community. The Nazis also targeted other groups, such as Gypsies, the disabled, Jehovah's Witnesses and homosexuals, as well as other groups. Simon Wiesenthal was a survivor of the Nazi death camps and dedicated his life to documenting the crimes of the Holocaust and to hunt down Nazis. Many organizations such like these have been created in honor of his efforts to educate people on the horrible genocide with the hope that people will learn from history so that such a tragic event will never happen again.
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