Simon Wiesenthal Center

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The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish organization that declares itself to be a human rights group dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action. The Center deals with important contemporary issues including racism, antisemitism, terrorism and genocide and is accredited as a non-governmental organization (NGO) both at the United Nations and UNESCO.

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Jewish - Holocaust - Racism - Antisemitism - Terrorism - Genocide - Non-governmental organization - United Nations - UNESCO

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The organization is named after Simon Wiesenthal, a former engineer and an Austrian Jew who lost many family members in the Holocaust, and later pledged to hunt down Nazis and bring them to justice.

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Simon Wiesenthal - Austrian - Jew - Holocaust - Nazis

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The Center is headed by Rabbi Marvin Hier, its Dean and Founder. Rabbi Abraham Cooper is the Associate Dean and Rabbi Meyer May is the Executive Director.

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Established in 1977, the Center closely interacts on an ongoing basis with a variety of public and private agencies, meeting with elected officials, the U.S. and foreign governments, diplomats and heads of state. Other issues that the Center deals with include: the prosecution of Nazi war criminals; Holocaust and tolerance education; Middle East Affairs; and extremist groups, neo-Nazism, and hate on the Internet.

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1977 - U.S. - Nazi - Holocaust - Middle East - Neo-Nazism - Internet

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The Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance is one of many partner organizations of the Austrian Association for Service Abroad (Auslandsdienst) and the corresponding so-called Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service (Gedenkdienst).

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Museum of Tolerance - Austrian - Auslandsdienst - Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service

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