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    Simon Wiesenthal

    Simon Wiesenthal was born on December 31, 1908, in Buczacz, in what is now the Lvov Oblast section of the Ukraine. When Wiesenthal's father was killed in World War inom, Mrs. Wiesenthal took her family and fled to Vienna for a brief period, returning to Buczacz when she remarried. The young Wiesenthal graduated from the Gymnasium in 1928 and applied for admission to the Polytechnic Institute in Lvov. Turned away because of quota restrictions on Jewish students, he went instead to the Technical University of Prague, from which he received his degree in architectural engineering in 1932.

    In 1936, Simon married Cyla Mueller and worked in an architectural office in Lvov. Their life together was happy until 1939 when Germany and Russia signed their "non-aggression" pact and agreed to partition Poland between them; the Russian army soon occupied Lvov, and shortly afterward began the Red purge of Jewish merchants, factory owners and other professionals. In the

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    Simon Wiesenthal Center

    U.S. based Jewish human rights organization

    The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) is a Jewish[1] human rights organization established in 1977 by Rabbi Marvin Hier.[2][3][4] The center is known for Holocaust research and remembrance, hunting Nazi war criminals, combating anti-Semitism, tolerance education, defending Israel,[5] and its Museum of Tolerance.[6]

    The center publishes a seasonal magazine, In Motion. The center has close ties to public and private agencies, and regularly meets with elected officials of the United States and foreign governments and with diplomats and heads of state. It is accredited as a non-governmental organization (NGO) at the United Nations, UNESCO, and the Council of Europe. The center is named in honor of Nazi hunterSimon Wiesenthal. Wiesenthal had nothing to do with its operation or activities other than giving its name,[7] but he remained supportiv

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    The Life of Simon Wiesenthal


    Simon Wiesenthal fought insatiably against indifference towards the crimes of National Socialism, against the failure to call its perpetrators to account. From the day of his liberation from the concentration camp Mauthausen onwards, he made it his life's task to find Nazi perpetrators and bring them to justice. His creed in this battle was „Justice, not Revenge“, as one of his many books' titles says.

     

    He was born on New Years' night 1908 in Buczacz, in the formerly Austrian territory of Galicia and studied architecture at the Technical University in Prague after he had been denied admission to the University of Lvov (then part of Poland) due to the antisemitic numerus clausus laws. Having completed his studies in 1932, he returned to Galicia, married his childhood sweetheart Cyla in 1936 and established an architect's office. Lvov was joined to the Sowiet Union through the Hitler-Stalin Pact in 1939, and Wiesenthal's office was nat