Mr. Wiesenthal spoke often of a dinner he had spent at the home of another survivor of the Mauthausen death camp, who had become a wealthy jeweler. The man speculated that Mr. Wiesenthal could have become a millionaire if he had gone back to architecture instead of hunting Nazis.

"When we come to the other world," Mr. Wiesenthal said he responded, "and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps, and they ask us, "What have you done?' there will be many answers.

"You will tell them, "I became a jeweler.'

"Another will say, "I smuggled coffee and American cigarettes.'

"Another will say, "I built houses.'

"But I will say, "I didn't forget you.' "