Simon Wiesenthal (1908–2005)
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Simon Wiesenthal was born on December 31, 1908 in a small town near the present-day Ukrainian city of Lvov. He attended the Technical University of Prague after being turned away from the Polytechnic Institute in Lvov because of quota restrictions on Jewish students. He received his degree in mostra'n més architectural engineering in 1932 and opened an architectural office in Lvov. He was forced to close his business at the beginning of World War II. By September 1942, a total of eighty-nine members of both his and his wife's families perished. He was liberated from the Mauthausen death camp in Austria by the Americans on May 5, 1945. It was his fifth death camp among the dozen Nazi camps in which he was imprisoned during the war. After the war, Wiesenthal began gathering and preparing evidence on Nazi atrocities for the War Crimes Section of the United States Army and other organizations. He spent more than 50 years hunting Nazi war criminals and speaking out against neo-Nazism and racism. His main function as a Nazi hunter was gathering and analyzing information and then passing it on to the appropriate authorities. According to him, his work helped bring about 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice; including Adolf Eichmann, Karl Silberbauer, and Franz Stangl. He died on September 20, 2005 in Vienna at the age of 96. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Simon Wiesenthal
Obres de Simon Wiesenthal
Antisemitism: The Generic Hatred: Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal (2007) — Honoree — 14 exemplars
Ich jagte Eichmann : Tatsachenbericht 7 exemplars
Resistance 3 exemplars
Raoul Wallenberg, Retter von hunderttausend Juden : ein Opfer Himmlers und Stalins (1982) — Pròleg — 2 exemplars
Los asesinos entre nosotros memorias 2 exemplars
Max and Helen: A Remarkable True Love Story 1 exemplars
GLI ASSASSINI SONO FRA NOI 1 exemplars
Homeland. Cuarta temporada 1 exemplars
Οι δολοφόνοι βρίσκονται ανάμεσα μας 1 exemplars
Οι δολοφόνοι βρίσκονται ανάμεσά μας 1 exemplars
Segel der Hoffnung 1 exemplars
Les assassins sont parmi nous. La longue chasse aux criminels nazis - Capture d'Eichmann - Arrestation du bourreau… (1967) 1 exemplars
O caçador de nazistas 1 exemplars
Recht 1 exemplars
Az igazság malmai... 1 exemplars
Kristallnacht 1 exemplars
El Holocausto Una historia de amor 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Journey through Darkness: Monowitz, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald (1999) — Prefaci, algunes edicions — 15 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- ויזנטל, שמעון
- Data de naixement
- 1908-12-31
- Data de defunció
- 2005-09-20
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Herzliya, Israel
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Austria
- Lloc de naixement
- Buczacz, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary (now Temopil Oblast, Ukraine)
- Lloc de defunció
- Vienna, Austria
- Llocs de residència
- Vienna, Austria
- Educació
- Technical University, Prague (Architectural engineering, 1932)
- Professions
- President, Jewish Documentation Centre
Nazi hunter
Holocaust survivor
memoirist - Relacions
- Lingens, Peter Michael (personal secretary)
Friedman, Tuviah (colleague) - Organitzacions
- Simon Wiesenthal Center
- Premis i honors
- Order of Polonia Restituta
Knight of the British Empire (2004)
Erasmus Prize (1992)
Legion d'Honneur (1986)
Congressional Gold Medal (1980) - Biografia breu
- Simon Wiesenthal was born in
Buczacz, then part of Austria-Hungary (present-day Ukraine), and studied architectural engineering at the Technical University of Prague and in Lviv. In 1936, he married Cyla Müller. After the Nazi invasion of Lviv in World War II in 1941, Wiesenthal was separated from his wife and sent to forced labor and to five German concentration camps, including Buchenwald and Mauthausen. He and his wife, who also managed to survive, were reunited at the end of the war. He founded and led the Jewish Documentation Centre in Vienna and dedicated his life to the search for and legal prosecution of Nazi war criminals and to promoting Holocaust memory and education. His best-known published work was his memoir, The Murderers Among Us (1967).
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 49
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 2,423
- Popularitat
- #10,584
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 45
- ISBN
- 101
- Llengües
- 14
- Preferit
- 4