SECTION 1: Beginnings
Simon Wiesenthal was born on the 31st of December in 1908. Wiesenthal's father was killed in action during World War 1 and his mother had taken their family to Vienna and returned home after being remarried. Simon Wiesenthal was a fairly bright man he had graduated from gimnasio in 1928 and had applied to Polytechnical Institute but was turned down because there were only a few Jews that were accepted. Instead he had received a degree in architectural engineering in 1932 from the University of Prague. He married his wife Cyla Mueller in 1936 and their happy lives took a turn for the worse when in 1939 Germany and Russia signed the non-aggression pact. This pact agreed that Germany and Russia were to partition Poland. The Russians then begin the Red Purge. They gathered all Jewish merchants, factory owners, and other specialists. At the begginning of ww2 Wiesenthal's step brother was shot and his step father was arrested and later died in prison. To make matters worse he was forced to shut down his business. Wiesenthal then became a mechanic at a bed spring company.
Wiesenthal had saved his mother, wife and himself from deportation by bribing a NKVD commissar. Things got even worse when Germany displaced Russia in 1941. A former employee of Wiesenthal had helped him escape execution but not from being detained. Wiesenthal was initially detained at the labor camp of Janwaska. He had saved his wife's life by getting her false papers under the name of Irene Kowalska. Due to his wifes's blonde hair it was possible for Wiesenthal to make a deal with the Polish underground and get false papers for his wife and give the underground detailed maps of train junctions. She had lived in Warsaw for two years and then she worked in Rhineland in a forced labor camp. Her true identity was never to be discovered.
Wiesenthal escaped his labor camp in 1943 but was recaptured in June of 1944 and was sent to Mauthausen concentration camp. Out 149,000 prisoners at Mauthausen only 34 remained and Wiesenthal was one of them. Since the German front was collapsing the 200 SS German guards took the 34 prisoners and the whole population of Chelmiec to even out the prisoner to guard ratio and retreated. After the trek westward few prisoners had made it and Wiesenthal was less than 100 pounds at this point and barely alive. Then in May 5th of 1945 an American armored unit had liberated Waesenthal
-SECTION 2: Event
As Wiesenthal's health was restoring he was reunited with his wife and in 1946 their daughter Pauline was born. After Wiesenthal's health was restored he gathered and prepared evidence against Nazi war criminals. Wiesenthal had worked in the war crimes section of the U.S. Army, army office of strategic services, and counter intelligence corps. Wiesenthal had provided evidence used by American Zone war criminals trials. His asociation with the U.S. Army ends in 1947 so Wiesenthal and 30 volunteers opens the Jewish Historical Documentation Center.The Jewish Historical documentation Center assembled evidence for future trials.
At the start of the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union both sides had lost interest in tracking down war criminals and many of Wiesenthal's volunteers started to drift away. This forced him to close down in 1954 and the files were given to Yad Vashem Archives but the file of Adolf eichman was kept. wiesenthal folowed Eighman's whereabouts and eventually had aided in the finding of Adolf Eighmann. In 1959 he was found in Buenos Aires under the alias of Ricardo Klement and in1961 he was tried and guilty for mass murder and was executed. After Wiesenthal's success he was pressured in reopening his operations andbegan analyzing information on cases. Wiesenthal also helped by gathering evidence on the case of Franz Stangl who was the commander of a few killing centers. Franz was given a life sentence in 1967 and died in prison. He helped bring 9 german officers be brought to trial and karl Silberbauer who was the gestapo agent who captured Anne Frank. There was still much work to be done because there were over 90,000 names on the files of the Nazi war criminal list.
SECTION 3: Results
Wiesenthal's life after the holocaust was dedicated too capturing Nazi war criminals. Wiesenthal's tenacity and passion had inspired other survivors. Some of Wiesenthal's greatest accomplishments were when he aided in the captureing of the first Nazi war criminal. Hermine Braunsteiner was a New York City housewife who had previously been a SS guard and had brutally kicked her prisoners with her steel toed boots. After she was stripped of her citizenship from the United States she was tried for her crimes in West Germany and had to serve two life sentences. She was released in 1996 due to poor health and later died in a nursing home in Germany.
Wiesenthal's tireless efforts to bring Nazi War criminals to justice earned him the United States Congressional Medal of Honor and also the French Legion of Honor. He was also given honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. Also in 1967 Wiesenthal wrote a novel by the name of Murders Among Us and a second novel called Justice, Not Vengence. An HBO movie was developed called Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story. The Simon Wiesenthal Center was created in 1977 for the purpose of remembering the holocaust. After all Wiesenthal had done he had passed on September 25th of 2005.
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SECTION 1: Beginnings
Simon Wiesenthal was born on the 31st of December in 1908. Wiesenthal's father was killed in action during World War 1 and his mother had taken their family to Vienna and returned home after being remarried. Simon Wiesenthal was a fairly bright man he had graduated from gimnasio in 1928 and had applied to Polytechnical Institute but was turned down because there were only a few Jews that were accepted. Instead he had received a degree in architectural engineering in 1932 from the University of Prague. He married his wife Cyla Mueller in 1936 and their happy lives took a turn for the worse when in 1939 Germany and Russia signed the non-aggression pact. This pact agreed that Germany and Russia were to partition Poland. The Russians then begin the Red Purge. They gathered all Jewish merchants, factory owners, and other specialists. At the begginning of ww2 Wiesenthal's step brother was shot and his step father was arrested and later died in prison. To make matters worse he was forced to shut down his business. Wiesenthal then became a mechanic at a bed spring company.
Wiesenthal had saved his mother, wife and himself from deportation by bribing a NKVD commissar. Things got even worse when Germany displaced Russia in 1941. A former employee of Wiesenthal had helped him escape execution but not from being detained. Wiesenthal was initially detained at the labor camp of Janwaska. He had saved his wife's life by getting her false papers under the name of Irene Kowalska. Due to his wifes's blonde hair it was possible for Wiesenthal to make a deal with the Polish underground and get false papers for his wife and give the underground detailed maps of train junctions. She had lived in Warsaw for two years and then she worked in Rhineland in a forced labor camp. Her true identity was never to be discovered.
Wiesenthal escaped his labor camp in 1943 but was recaptured in June of 1944 and was sent to Mauthausen concentration camp. Out 149,000 prisoners at Mauthausen only 34 remained and Wiesenthal was one of them. Since the German front was collapsing the 200 SS German guards took the 34 prisoners and the whole population of Chelmiec to even out the prisoner to guard ratio and retreated. After the trek westward few prisoners had made it and Wiesenthal was less than 100 pounds at this point and barely alive. Then in May 5th of 1945 an American armored unit had liberated Waesenthal
-SECTION 2: Event
As Wiesenthal's health was restoring he was reunited with his wife and in 1946 their daughter Pauline was born. After Wiesenthal's health was restored he gathered and prepared evidence against Nazi war criminals. Wiesenthal had worked in the war crimes section of the U.S. Army, army office of strategic services, and counter intelligence corps. Wiesenthal had provided evidence used by American Zone war criminals trials. His asociation with the U.S. Army ends in 1947 so Wiesenthal and 30 volunteers opens the Jewish Historical Documentation Center.The Jewish Historical documentation Center assembled evidence for future trials.
At the start of the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union both sides had lost interest in tracking down war criminals and many of Wiesenthal's volunteers started to drift away. This forced him to close down in 1954 and the files were given to Yad Vashem Archives but the file of Adolf eichman was kept. wiesenthal folowed Eighman's whereabouts and eventually had aided in the finding of Adolf Eighmann. In 1959 he was found in Buenos Aires under the alias of Ricardo Klement and in1961 he was tried and guilty for mass murder and was executed. After Wiesenthal's success he was pressured in reopening his operations andbegan analyzing information on cases. Wiesenthal also helped by gathering evidence on the case of Franz Stangl who was the commander of a few killing centers. Franz was given a life sentence in 1967 and died in prison. He helped bring 9 german officers be brought to trial and karl Silberbauer who was the gestapo agent who captured Anne Frank. There was still much work to be done because there were over 90,000 names on the files of the Nazi war criminal list.
SECTION 3: Results
Wiesenthal's life after the holocaust was dedicated too capturing Nazi war criminals. Wiesenthal's tenacity and passion had inspired other survivors. Some of Wiesenthal's greatest accomplishments were when he aided in the captureing of the first Nazi war criminal. Hermine Braunsteiner was a New York City housewife who had previously been a SS guard and had brutally kicked her prisoners with her steel toed boots. After she was stripped of her citizenship from the United States she was tried for her crimes in West Germany and had to serve two life sentences. She was released in 1996 due to poor health and later died in a nursing home in Germany.
Wiesenthal's tireless efforts to bring Nazi War criminals to justice earned him the United States Congressional Medal of Honor and also the French Legion of Honor. He was also given honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. Also in 1967 Wiesenthal wrote a novel by the name of Murders Among Us and a second novel called Justice, Not Vengence. An HBO movie was developed called Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story. The Simon Wiesenthal Center was created in 1977 for the purpose of remembering the holocaust. After all Wiesenthal had done he had passed on September 25th of 2005.