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Simon Wiesenthal

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born

December 31, 1908 in Buchach, Ukraine

died

September 20, 2005

gender

male

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

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Simon Wiesenthal, KBE, was an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer and Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter who pursued Nazi war criminals in an effort to bring them to justice.

Following four and a half years in the German concentration camps such as Janowska, Plaszow, and Mauthausen during World War II, Wiesenthal dedicated most of his life to tracking down and gathering information on fugitive Nazis so that they could be brought to justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity. In 1947, he co-founded the Jewish Historical Documentation Center in Linz, Austria, in order to gather information for future war crime trials. Later he opened Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna. Wiesenthal...more

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Books by Simon Wiesenthal

Average rating: 4.06 · 1,750 ratings · 239 reviews · 14 distinct works

	The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness 4.06 avg rating — 1,640 ratings — published 1969 — 17 editions	My rating:
	The murderers among us 4.16 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1967 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Max And Helen 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Justice, Not Vengeance 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Geen wraak maar gerechtigheid 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Krystyna: The Tragedy of the Polish Resistance 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Operación Nuevo Mundo: La Vela De La Esperanza 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1992	My rating:
	Flucht vor dem Schicksal : Roman 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Segel der Hoffnung : die geheime Mission des Christoph Columbus 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1984 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ucieczka przed losem 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1992	My rating: