Simon Wiesenthal Center

Organizational History

The Simon Wiesenthal Center was established in 1977 as an international Jewish human rights organization. Its primary goal is to preserve the memory of the Holocaust by encouraging tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach, and social action. Other issues that the Center focuses on are Middle East affairs, prosecution of Nazi war criminals, extremist groups, neo-Nazism, and hate on the Internet. The center is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and maintains offices in several other countries.

The Center's traveling poster exhibit on the Holocaust, The Courage to Remember (on which this collection is based) opened in Vienna, Austria in 1988. It has since traveled throughout North America and to fifteen other countries. As of August 2001, a resource guide to the exhibit and poster images may be viewed on the Internet at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance Web site .

From the guide to the The courage to remember: the Holocaust, 1933-1945, : posters, 1988 / Simon Wiesenthal Center, (University of California, Irvine. Library. Special Collections and Archives.)