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Ariel Gelblung

Dr. Ariel Gelblung is the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Director for Latin America

Simon Wiesenthal: An inspiration

12-09-2020 10:18 Fifteen years after the death of Simon Wiesenthal, Dr. Ariel Gelblung explains why the Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter remains a beacon of inspiration in these troubled times.

by Ariel Gelblung

Auschwitz did not start in the early 1940s in order to hasten a “Final Solution” to the Jewish issue but in 1919. Hitler had expressed this idea in writing in a letter sent to a German Army officer Adolf Gemlich.

GUEST VOICE

Honour the dead and attend to the living

25-01-2020 10:09 It is impossible to think that Man could submit one of its own kind to such an experience as the Holocaust.

by Ariel Gelblung

People of the Book

A photo with books

22-07-2019 17:33 We saved the book from our homeland and the book saved us from extinction.

by Ariel Gelblung

January 27 is known as the International Day of Annual Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.

INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

History lessons for every January 27

26-01-2019 09:51 “Every January 27 must serve to internalise the idea that differences enrich us. That seeing and listening to others makes us better. That a society is not composed of thousands repeating a single voice but thousands of different voices agreeing to live together and respect each other’s identity.”

by Ariel Gelblung