NAZI HUNTER Simon Wiesenthal

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1.Simon Wiesenthal was a survivor of the Nazi Death Camps

"When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren’t able to kill millions of people and get away with it."

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1.Founder and head of the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna

2.Adolf Eichman

Franz Murer

Erich Rajakowitsch

3. The Murderers Among Us (1967)

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Quota Restrictions 1.Born on December 31,

1908, Buczacs, Ukraine

2.Father was killed in WW1, mother took her family and fled to Vienna

3.Graduated in 1928

4.Applied to Polytechnic Institute, turned away because of quota restrictions of Jewish Students

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1.1936, married Cyla Mueller

2.1939, Russia+Germany=Non-Aggresion Pact

3.The Red Purge of Jewish merchants, factory owners and other professionals.

4. Stepfather arrested, stepbrother shot, Wiesenthal closed business and became a mechanic in a bedspring factory

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“The Final Solution”1.1942, Nazi Hierarchy

decide upon “final solution” (annihilation)

2.Genocide of Europe, mother was sent to Belzec death camp

3.89 members of his family perished

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1.Made deal with Polish Underground to save his wife

2.1943, escaped Ostabahn before liquidation

3.Recaptured, would have been killed had German Eastern front not collapsed

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1.200 guards retreated west

2.34/149,000, capture village to fix ratio

3.Trek to Mauthausen, Austria.

4.Weighing 100 pounds and barely alive, lying helplessly in barrack with strong stench until Mauthausen was liberated

Pauline 1.When health was restored, began gathering and preparing evidence for the U.S Army

2.Reunited with supposed dead wife, first daughter Pauline

3.Evidence he supplied was utilized in American Zone war crime trials

4.Opened Jewish Historical Documentation Center

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1.Center was closed and files were given to Yad Vashem Archives in Israel

2.All except the Adolf Eichman file

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1.Wiesenthal received info that Eichman was in Argentina

2.Passed info to Israel, but FBI heard he was in Damascus

3.1959, “Ricardo Klement” captured in Buenos Aires

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1. He was captured there by Israeli agents and brought to Israel for trial. Eichmann was found guilty of mass murder and executed on May 31, 1961.

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“Yes…I arrested Anne Frank”

-Karl Silberbauer

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In November 1977, the Simon Wiesenthal Center was founded.

Today, together with its world renowned Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and the New York “Tolerancenter”, it is an international center for Holocaust remembrance, the defense of human rights and the Jewish people.

“I did not forget about you”

On September 20, 2005

Wiesenthal died peacefully in his sleep

He was taken to Israel and laid to rest in Herzliya

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