Simon Wiesenthal

Simon Wiesenthal, honorary KBE, (31 December, 1908 – 20 September, 2005), was an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer who became a Nazi hunter after surviving the Holocaust.

Wiesenthal Center

In 1977, a Holocaust memorial agency was named in his honor as the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The Center promotes awareness of anti-Semitism, monitors neo-Nazi groups, operates the Museums of Tolerance in Los Angeles, California and Jerusalem, and helps bring surviving Nazi war criminals to justice.

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1977 - Simon Wiesenthal Center - Anti-Semitism - Neo-Nazi - Museums of Tolerance - Los Angeles, California - Jerusalem

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