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Simon Wiesenthal (31 December 1908 – 20 September 2005) was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II.
Simon Wiesenthal (born December 31, 1908, Buczacz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Buchach, Ukraine]—died September 20, 2005, Vienna, Austria) was the founder (1961) and head (until 2003) of the Jewish Documentation Centre in Vienna.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is a Jewish global human rights organization researching the Holocaust and hate in a historic and contemporary context.
Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor, dedicated his life to raising public awareness of the need to hunt and prosecute Nazis who have evaded justice. After liberation, Wiesenthal worked for the War Crimes Section of the United States Army, and in 1947 he opened the Jewish Historical Documentation Center in Austria.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center ( SWC) is a Jewish [1] human rights organization established in 1977 by Rabbi Marvin Hier. [2] [3] [4] The center is known for Holocaust research and remembrance, hunting Nazi war criminals, combating anti-Semitism, tolerance education, defending Israel, [5] and its Museum of Tolerance. [6]
About Simon Wiesenthal. SIMON WIESENTHAL 1908-2005. At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in the systematic murder of some 6,000,000 Jews and millions of Gypsies, Poles and other "inferior" peoples, slipped through the Allied net and escaped to countries around the globe, where many still live in freedom.
Sep 20, 2005 · Simon Wiesenthal, who has died aged 96 after a life that spanned the greater part of the last century, had some remarkable escapes from death by violence or from starvation in...
Simon Wiesenthal was an artist, an architect, an author, and a Holocaust survivor; following his liberation, he became known as a Nazi Hunter – a title he pushed back against.
The Life of Simon Wiesenthal. Simon Wiesenthal fought insatiably against indifference towards the crimes of National Socialism, against the failure to call its perpetrators to account. From the day of his liberation from the concentration camp Mauthausen onwards, he made it his life's task to find Nazi perpetrators and bring them to justice.
Sep 16, 2010 · Simon Wiesenthal spent decades after the end of World War II hunting down senior Nazi functionaries who had escaped justice. He became world famous in the process -- not least because he went out...
