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The Sunflower. By Simon Wiesenthal PREFACE When the first American Addition of the Sunflower was published by Shokhin Books in 1976 courses about the Holocaust had just begun to appear in the curricula of colleges, high schools and seminaries. Because it's a book that invites discussion, the Sunflower soon became one of the most widely used books and teaching settings. Simon Wiesenthal tells a personal story of an incident that occurred in a concentration camp and asks, What would you have done in his place? Theologians, political and moral leaders and writers responded to his question, a question that is at once religious, political, moral and personal each on their own perspective. As would be expected, a wide variety of opinions was expressed. Nevertheless, each and every respondent had to imagine him or herself in the place of a concentration camp prisoner to face the enormity of the crime before them and reflect on the implications of their decision in this one isolated case was forgiveness and option. And what would it mean for the victim as well as the perpetrator of these crimes? The 20th anniversary of its publication in this country is the occasion for a new addition of the sunflower. This second edition presents 32 new responses written for Volume 10 retained from the previous edition and one by Edward H. Flannery. Revised for this edition. Three contributions by John Hall, Marie Cardinal Koenig and Albert Speer were translated from the 1981 German edition and appear here for the first time in English translation. Why a new edition of the Sunflower? In light of the events of the last 20 years, we felt it would be interesting to hear the responses of a new generation. On the one hand, time blunts memory on the other. Our knowledge and awareness of the Holocaust has increased through education. Even those who do not have a living memory of the Holocaust have begun to assimilate what it means for people to lose 1/3 of its members to genocide, together with their culture, language and history.