Wiesenthal, Simon, 1908-2005
Simon Wiesenthal; b. 31 December 1908, Buczacz (Buchach), Kingdom of Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine); d. 20 September 2005, Vienna, Austria; Holocaust survivor ( Janowska concentration camp, Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, Gross-Rosen concentration camp, Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, death march to Chemnitz, Buchenwald concentration camp); Nazi hunter, played a small role in locating Adolf Eichmann; co-founded the Jewish Historical Documentation Centre in Linz, Austria, 1947; studied architecture at Czech Technical University in Prague; married Cyla Müller, 1936; author of several memoirs containing tales that are only loosely based on actual events;
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, located in Los Angeles, is named in his honor;
buried in Herzliya, Israel;
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