8/5/80 -- (Remarks -- Presentation of Special Gold Medal to Simon Wiesenthal on Behalf of Congress) AS/RH

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8/5/80 -- (Remarks -- Presentation of Special Gold Medal to Simon Wiesenthal on Behalf of Congress) AS/RH

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Wiesenthal, Simon, 1908-2005

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Simon Wiesenthal was born December 31, 1908 in Buczacz, Kingdom of Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now known as Buchach, Ukraine). He is a Holocaust survivor of several concentration camps and the death march to Chemnitz. After the war he was a famous Nazi hunter, and played a small role in locating Adolf Eichmann. Before the war, he studied architecture at Czech Technical University in Prague and married Cyla Müller, 1936. In 1947, Wiesenthal co-founded the Jewish Historical Documentation Centre in L...