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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. He survived the Janowska concentration camp (late 1941 to September 1944), the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp (September to October ...
3 days ago · Simon Wiesenthal, founder (1961) and head (until 2003) of the Jewish Documentation Centre in Vienna. During World War II he was a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, and afterward he was dedicated to the search for and the legal prosecution of Nazi criminals and to the promotion of Holocaust memory and education.
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In 1989, a film based on Mr. Wiesenthal’s life entitled, Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story was produced by Home Box Office and starred Academy Award-winning actor Ben Kingsley as Simon Wiesenthal. Simon Wiesenthal was born on December 31, 1908 in Buczacz, in what is now the Lvov Oblast section of the Ukraine.
In November 1977, the Simon Wiesenthal Center was founded. Today, together with its world renowned Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and the New York Tolerancenter, it is an international center for Holocaust remembrance, the defense of human rights and the Jewish people.
Sep 20, 2005 · Simon Wiesenthal, who died Tuesday at age 96, survived the Holocaust and devoted his life to finding Nazi fugitives and bringing them to justice. He was best known for helping to track down...
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Sep 16, 2010 · A Critical Look at Simon Wiesenthal Examining the Legacy of the Nazi Hunter. Until his death in 2005, Simon Wiesenthal was the world's best-known Nazi hunter. But a new biography finds...
