Simon Wiesenthal
Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter (1908–2005)
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Holocaust survivor who spent decades tracking down Nazi war criminals after the war ended. Wiesenthal's documentation work helped bring hundreds of perpetrators to justice, making him one of history's most visible hunters of Nazi fugitives.
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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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