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AMONG the 300,000 pieces of paper in Simon Wiesenthal’s private archive is a letter from a Holocaust survivor explaining why he had ceased to believe in God. In Tom Segev’s description: “God had allowed SS troops to snatch a baby from his mother and then use it as a football. When it was a torn lump of flesh they tossed it to their dogs. The mother was forced to watch. Then they ripped off her blouse and made her use it to clean the blood off their boots.”
What made a man who survived three concentration camps cancel plans after the war to move first to America, then Israel, and instead devote his life in Vienna to amassing and immersing himself in memories that most survivors spent the rest of their days trying to forget? The famed “Nazi hunter” tended to guard his emotions by wrapping them in anecdotes for public consumption: he would talk of a girl he had seen being marched towards a mass grave whose desperate look seemed to say “Don’t forget us”. In his need to protect sources and conceal his work with government agencies, including Israel’s Mossad, such anecdotes spun out of control, multiplying into many different versions in his books and interviews.

A. 어휘
pursuit 追跡(추적), 추격. complicated 복잡한.
obsessed 망상에 들다, 달라붙어 괴롭히다. archive 공문서 보관소.
Holocaust 유대인 대학살. cease 그만 두다, 중지하다.
description 記述(기술). SS troops 나치 친위대.
snatch 낚아채다, 잡아 빼앗다. torn lump of flesh 찢어진 살덩어리.
toss 내던지다. rip 찢다. concentration camps 강제수용소.
devote 獻身(헌신)하다. amass 축적하다, 쌓다.
immerse 몰입하다. anecdotes 逸話(일화). consumption 소비.
anecdotes for public consumption 일반 대중용 일화.
mass grave 공동묘지. desperate look 참혹한 모습. conceal 숨기다.
his work with government agencies 정부기관과의 공동작업.
spin-spun-spun 紡績(방적)하다, 실을 잣다.
multiply 倍加(배가)하다, 증대하다.