!!!Wiesenthal, Simon

b. Bučač (Ukraine), Dec. 31, 1908, architect; pursuer of 
nazi criminals. Interned in various concentration camps from 
1941-1945. After his liberation from the Mauthausen concentration 
camp, W. applied himself to tracking down nazi criminals and worked 
for the U.S. War Crimes Office from 1945-1947; founded the Jewish 
Documentation Centre in Linz in 1947 (in Vienna since 1961). W.'s 
constant efforts to bring nazi criminals to justice and keep the 
memory of Nazi crimes alive has earned him numerous international 
decorations. In 2000, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the 
highest decoration in the USA.

!Works
KZ Mauthausen, 1946; Gross-Mufti - Gross-Agent der Achse, 1947; 
Ich jagte Eichmann, 1961; Verjaehrung, 1964; Doch die Moerder leben, 
1967; Die Sonnenblume, 1969; Segel der Hoffnung, 1973; Der Fall 
Krystyna Jaworska, 1975; Max und Helen, 1982; Flucht vor dem 
Schicksal, 1988; Jeder Tag ein Gedenktag, 1988; Recht, nicht Rache, 
1988; Denn sie wussten, was sie tun, 1995; Projekt Judenplatz Wien, 
2000 (ed.).

!Literature
M. Sporrer and H. Steiner (eds.), S. W., 1992; A. 
Levy, Die Akte W., 1995; H. Pick, S. W. Eine Biographie, 1998.


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