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    Simon Wiesenthal (31 December 1908 – 20 September 2005) was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture, and...
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    The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) is a Jewish human rights organization established in 1977 by Rabbi Marvin Hier. The center is known for Holocaust research...
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    Wiesenthal (German for "meadow valley") is a municipality in the Wartburgkreis district of Thuringia, Germany. Gewählte Bürgermeister - aktuelle Landesübersicht...
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  • Wiesenthal is a municipality in Thuringia, Germany Wiesenthal or Wiesental may also refer to: Oberwiesenthal, a town and ski resort in Erzgebirgs District...
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  • crimes, based on wanted lists published by Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Beginning in 2002, Zuroff produced an Annual Status Report on...
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  • crimes and crimes against humanity. Prominent Nazi hunters include Simon Wiesenthal, Tuviah Friedman, Serge Klarsfeld, Beate Klarsfeld, Ian Sayer, Yaron Svoray...
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    Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal (1726–1789) was a German-American physician and inventor who was awarded the patent for the first known mechanical device for...
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    Robert S. Wiesenthal (born June 22, 1967) is an American businessman. Until June 2012, Wiesenthal was executive vice president and chief financial officer...
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    Grete Wiesenthal (9 December 1885 – 22 June 1970) was an Austrian dancer, actor, choreographer, and dance teacher. She transformed the Viennese Waltz from...
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    names, Wiesenthal was loaned a wartime Gestapo telephone book by Dutch investigators. During a two-hour flight from Amsterdam to Vienna, Wiesenthal found...
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  • The Kreisky–Peter–Wiesenthal affair was a political and personal feud in the 1970s, fought between the then Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky and the Nazi...
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  • The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) is a research centre dedicated to the research and documentation of and education on all aspects...
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    being sought by West Germany, Israel, and Nazi hunters such as Simon Wiesenthal, who wanted to bring him to trial. Mengele eluded capture in spite of...
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    Mauricio Wiesenthal (born 1943 in Barcelona) is a Spanish writer. His works include fiction, biography, history, poetry, biography, literary and art criticism...
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    assassination attempts over the years by different groups, including the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Klarsfelds and Mossad. In 1954 he was convicted in absentia...
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    "Tom Cruise's Remarks on Receiving the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Humanitarian Award". Simon Wiesenthal Center. Archived from the original on April 8...
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    Efraim Zuroff (category Simon Wiesenthal Center)
    director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center office in Jerusalem, is the coordinator of Nazi war crimes research worldwide for the Wiesenthal Center and the author...
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    friendly manner, married to a construction worker. Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal picked up on her trail by chance on a visit to Tel Aviv. He was at a restaurant...
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  • the list of most-wanted Nazi war criminals as determined by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Kissner was born in Sensburg, East Prussia, as the daughter of...
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  • after being annexed on 12 March 1938. A separate record obtained by the Wiesenthal Center indicates he sought membership before the annexation, but was accepted...
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  • Skoraczewo [skɔraˈt͡ʂɛvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Śmigiel, within Kościan County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central...
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  • was questioned by Efraim Zuroff, a leading Nazi hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Zuroff stated that on a visit to Puerto Montt, Chile, in July...
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    Bystrzyca [bɨsˈtʂɨt͡sa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wleń, within Lwówek Śląski County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western...
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    slave trade, Jim Crow laws and black oppression in general. The Simon Wiesenthal Center included some of Farrakhan's comments on its list of the Top 10...
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    Lučany nad Nisou (German: Wiesenthal an der Neiße) is a town in Jablonec nad Nisou District in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2...
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    Friedman. Serge and Beate Klarsfeld Yaron Svoray Elliot Welles Simon Wiesenthal Efraim Zuroff Mandel, Kobi (13 January 2011). טוביה פרידמן, ממסייעי לכידת...
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    Loučná pod Klínovcem (until 1947 Český Wiesenthal; German: Böhmisch Wiesenthal) is a town in Chomutov District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech...
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    Israel–Hamas war, when he was awarded the Humanitarian Prize at Simon Wiesenthal Center's National Tribute Gala. Emanuel called for Netanyahu to step down...
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    box for one of its trainers, after receiving complaints from the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre. Also in 2002, Siemens withdrew...
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    21, 2022. "Wiesenthal Center Welcomes K-Pop Group's Apology For Incidents Offensive To Jewish And Japanese Victims Of WWII". Simon Wiesenthal Center. November...
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