Simon Wiesenthal, meet Henry Morgentaler

I'm not sure if they ever met but the Nazi hunter and famed abortion doctor ruled my imagination growing up. It's taken me years to figure out why.

By Leah Eichler,

I can’t recall exactly what inspired me, in the late 1990s, to send that fax (a fax!) to Simon Weisenthal’s office in Vienna and request an interview. Weisenthal was already 90 and not very active in the day-to-day operations of the Documentation Centre of the Association of Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime, although his assistant assur…