- Born
- December 31, 1908
- Died
- September 20, 2005 (aged 96)
- Known as
- Nazis hunter, autobiographer, architect, advocate, opinion journalist, musician
Simon Wiesenthal was an Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture, and was living in Lviv 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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