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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.
Nov 5, 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.
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 survivor of the Nazi death camps, dedicated his life to documenting the crimes of the Holocaust and to hunting down the perpetrators still at large. "When history looks back," Wiesenthal explained, "I want people to know the Nazis weren’t able to kill millions of people and get away with it."
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 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.
Simon Wiesenthal was a tireless fighter against antisemitism. After his liberation from Mauthausen concentration camp in 1945, he made it his life’s work to track down Nazi criminals and bring them to justice.
A small museum in the VWI building at Rabensteig 3, 1010 Vienna, commemorates the life of Simon Wiesenthal, his legacy, his work – and thus constitutes the foundation of the scholarly, documentary, and educational work of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI).
Apr 30, 2019 · Simon Wiesenthal survived five concentration camps and has been credited with the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust. He tracked down one of Hitler's right-hand men and the architect of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, as well as the policeman who arrested Anne Frank.
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.
