"Mietek Pemper was doing his job as a secretary taking dictation. One day his boss, Amon Goeth, glanced out the window and saw that a worker did not have a full load of stones in his wheelbarrow. Mr. Goeth walked outside and shot the man to death, then returned to his desk and said, 'Where were we in the text?'
"In his wartime office from hell, Mr. Pemper repeatedly risked his life, using guile to gain access to classified documents and a photographic memory to record them. At one point he learned of the Nazis’ plans to exterminate Jews and others."
This is an important obituary, a tribute to a just man (a Baal Shem Tov).
