Wiesenthal, Simon

Wiesenthal, Simon
(1908–2006)
   The famed Nazi hunter was born in Galicia and resided in Lvov, Poland, at the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. A survivor of five concentration camps, Wiesenthal was liberated from Mauthausen by the Americans on 5 May 1945. An architect by training, Wiesenthal based himself after the war in Vienna, where he subsequently founded the Jewish Documentation Center in 1961 in the wake of the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel. Through his center, Wiesenthal gathered information regarding Nazi criminals. Wiesenthal has been credited with discovering the whereabouts of over 1,000 Nazis, including Franz Stangl, the commandant of Sobibor and Treblinka.
   In recent years, however, Wiesenthal has been accused of exaggerating his role in the pursuit of Josef Mengele, Martin Bormann, and Eichmann. The World Jewish Congress was also critical of Wiesenthal’s defense of Kurt Waldheim, the former president of Austria who was accused of participating and covering up his role in Nazi war crimes in the former Yugoslavia.
   Wiesenthal was also the author of many books on aspects of the Holocaust. Among his better known works are The Murderers amongst Us (1967), The Sunflower (1970), Max and Helen (1981), and Justice Not Vengeance (1989). In 1977, the Los Angeles Wiesenthal Center was established in his honor.
   See also Art and The Holocaust.

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