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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.
Jul 20, 2024 · 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.
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 is a Jewish global human rights organization researching the Holocaust and hate in a historic and contemporary context.
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.
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.
Aug 29, 2020 · Simon Wiesenthal (1908-2005) was a Jewish-Austrian architect who survived several Nazi labour and concentration camps during the Holocaust. He became arguably the best-known hunter of fugitive Nazi war criminals after World War II.
Sep 20, 2005 · Simon Wiesenthal, the death camp survivor who dedicated the rest of his life to tracking down fugitive Nazi war criminals, died today at his home in Vienna. He was 96. His death was announced by...
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.
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.
