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Simon Wiesenthal was an Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture, and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Janowska concentration camp, the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, a death march to Chemnitz, Buchenwald, and the Mauthausen concentration camp.
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Born 31 December 1908 · Died 20 September 2005 · Q49086
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“s desire to find a place of refuge for the Jews, who were suffering immense persecution in Spain at the time (and in 1492 would be subjected to the Edict of Expulsion). Wiesenthal also believed that Columbus”
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The Austrian and Israeli governments jointly issued a commemorative stamp honouring Wiesenthal
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His collection of Zemstvo stamps sold at auction for €90,000 after his death
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Died 2005-09-20.
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Won Great Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (2005).
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And was buried in the city of Herzliya in Israel
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Was awarded an honorary KBE by the British Government
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Bill Clinton (2000).
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Awarded Ehrenpreis des österreichischen Buchhandels für Toleranz in Denken und Handeln (1995).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Comenius University (1995).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow (1994).
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By filmmakers Johanna Heer and Werner Schmiedel for River Lights Pictures
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Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art First Class (1993).
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Awarded Erasmus Prize (1992).
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Wiesenthal was awarded the Erasmus Prize by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation
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Won Otto Hahn Peace Medal (1991).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Vienna (1990).
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But after Kreisky's death nine months later his heirs refused to pay
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Wiesenthal was involved in the case of Kurt Waldheim, whose service in the Wehrmacht and probable knowledge of the Holocaust were revealed in the lead-up to the 1986 Austrian presidential elections
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That he had died in 1979; the body was exhumed and its identity was confirmed
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The 40th anniversary of the end of the war
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Offered a reward of $100,000 for Mengele's capture and insisted as late as 1985—six years after Mengele's death—that he was still alive
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Was released on health grounds in 1996, and died in 1999
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“I have sought with Jewish leaders not to talk about 6 million Jewish dead [in the Holocaust], but rather about 11 million civilians dead, including 6 million Jews.”
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Wiesenthal told The Washington Post: "I have sought with Jewish leaders not to talk about 6 million Jewish dead [in the Holocaust], but rather about 11 million civilians dead, including 6 million Jews
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By Rabbi Marvin Hier, who paid Wiesenthal an honorarium for the right to use his name
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A person living in Buenos Aires who saw the movie reported to police that Roschmann was living nearby
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Seemed unsure, Kreisky proposed that his Social Democratic Party should form a coalition with the Freedom Party, headed by Friedrich Peter
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As Sails of Hope: The Secret Mission of Christopher Columbus), which was his first non-fiction book not on the subject of the Holocaust
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Wiesenthal reported—without checking very thoroughly—that there was no evidence that he had a Nazi past
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Wiesenthal published Zeilen der hoop
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Wiesenthal read in the newspaper that Karl Silberbauer, the man who had arrested famed diarist Anne Frank, had been located; he was serving on the police force in Vienna
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And lived there until he drowned while swimming in 1979
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And continued to try to locate missing Nazi war criminals
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As there were too few refugees left in the city to justify the expense
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Wiesenthal made arrangements for private detectives to surreptitiously photograph members of the family, as Otto Eichmann was said to bear a strong resemblance to his brother Adolf, and there were no current photos of th
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And worked closely with the Austrian justice ministry to prepare a dossier on Franz Stangl, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1971
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But he could not be found; he had in fact moved to Paraguay in 1958
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Cairo in 1961, in Spain in 1971, and in Paraguay in 1978, the latter 18 years after he had left
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But German agents were unable to find him until late 1959
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That Eichmann had been seen in Buenos Aires, and he passed along that information to the Israeli consulate in Vienna in 1954
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And Wiesenthal's closed in 1954
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When in fact the declaration was denied by government officials
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Co-founded the Jewish Historical Documentation Centre in Linz, Austria, where he and others gathered information for future war crime trials and aided Jewish refugees in their search for lost relatives
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And their daughter Paulinka was born the following year
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That he claimed was a scene he witnessed in Mauthausen had actually been sketched from photos that appeared in Life magazine that June
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Or in the Battle of Berlin on 19 April 1945
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Was posted to Yugoslavia and Greece, and had knowledge of murders of civilians that took place in those locations during his service there
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And moved to Dolyna with her new husband, Isack Halperin, who owned a tile factory there
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Born 1908-12-31.
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To escape the frequent pogroms against Jews
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