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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.
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.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Simon Wiesenthal Center
The Center is accredited as a non-governmental organization (NGO) at the United Nations, the UNESCO, and the Council of Europe.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance is one of many partner organizations of the Austrian Association for Service Abroad (Auslandsdienst) and the corresponding so-called Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service (Gedenkdienst).
A minority has taken possession all of the wealth of the world...” The Simon Wiesenthal Center omitted the reference to Bolívar without ellipsis, stated that Chávez was referring to Jews, and denounced the remarks as antisemitic by way of his allusions to wealth.
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 CNN.com - Nazi hunter Wiesenthal dead at 96 - Sep 20, 2005
"Simon Wiesenthal was the conscience of the Holocaust," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
The Allies were already focused on the Cold War, the survivors were rebuilding their shattered lives and Simon Wiesenthal was all alone, combining the role of both prosecutor and detective at the same time.
Wiesenthal was held in a number of concentration camps during World War II and was freed from Mauthausen in Austria by American troops on May 5, 1945.
www.cnn.com /2005/US/09/20/obit.wiesenthal/index.html   (468 words)

  
 Simon Wiesenthal Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Simon Wiesenthal (born 1908) was a Ukrainian Jew caught in the horrors of World War II.
Simon Wiesenthal was born on December 31, 1908, in what is now the Lvov section of the Ukraine.
In late 1942 Wiesenthal secured his wife's safety by persuading the Polish underground to provide her with "Aryan" papers identifying her as "Irene Kowalska." She lived in Warsaw and later was a forced laborer in Germany, but her true identity was never revealed.
www.bookrags.com /biography/simon-wiesenthal   (1474 words)

  
 UJC - Simon Wiesenthal Center/UNESCO Conference on Anti-Semitism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The most important conference the Simon Wiesenthal Center has organized in over a decade, "Educating for Tolerance: The Case of Resurgent Anti-Semitism," is being convened May 12-14 at the UNESCO world headquarters.
Just last month Simon Wiesenthal, now 95, said "there is more anti-Semitism today than we experienced in the 1930s." Over the course of the last 30 months, the United Nations and their agencies, as well as many European governments, have stood by silently or feigned ignorance of this threat.
The Center is walking into the eye of a hurricane to deliver the message directly to those who need to hear it most -- to force the issue of anti-Semitism into the international arena and point out the moral failure in Europe that has allowed anti-Semitism to reemerge.
www.ujc.org /content_display.html?ArticleID=76222   (649 words)

  
 Simon Wiesenthal
Wiesenthal illustrated his book with drawings which he allegedly did either while in Mauthausen or from memory thereafter, and one of the more famous pictures from his book is of three Jews, in their striped prisoner outfits, who had been shot at the stake by the Nazis.
Wiesenthal reported in his autobiography that he worked there "as a technician and draftsman," that he was rather well treated, and that his immediate superior, who was "secretly anti-Nazi," even permitted him to own two pistols.
Simon Wiesenthal, KZ Mauthausen (Linz and Vienna: Ibis-Verlag, 1946).
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The Center’s annual income in the 2002-2003 fiscal year (the most recent for which detailed data is available) was $30 million, of which some $17 million was from public donations, and $10 million – one-third of the total -- was from taxpayer funds.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is a staunch supporter of Israel and its Jewish supremacist regime.
The Center supports Jewish religious bigotry, insisting that the Zionist seizure of the land of Palestine (“Zion”) is ordained by God, as revealed in the Hebrew scriptures.
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 Home - Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies
The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies educates the public on the history of the Holocaust, conducts research on Nazi war criminals and conducts research and designs and implements programs of public education on anti-semitism, all related to the effects and repercussions of the Holocaust.
Currently, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies together with others is building in Israel a public museum dealing with anti-semitism and tolerance.
The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies will lease a portion of the land indirectly from the Israel Land Administration and will conduct its own programmes and display its own exhibits in its portion of the building for programme and exhibit purposes.
www.fswc.ca /index.htm   (299 words)

  
 IsraCast: Simon Wiesenthal 1908-2005
Simon Wiesenthal, 96, the Nazi hunter who pursued hundreds of war criminals after World War II and was central to preserving the memory of the Holocaust for more than half a century, died today in Vienna, Austria, his base of operations.
Simon Wiesenthal was one of the lucky few who survived the Nazi death camps of World War II.
Wiesenthal did not return to his pre-War profession as an architect, but instead became the world famous Nazi hunter, the conscience and voice for not only the Holocaust's 6,000,000 Jewish victims but for the millions of others who were murdered by the Nazis as well.
www.isracast.com /transcripts/200905a_trans.htm   (293 words)

  
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SWC does not meet the meeting attendance provision of this Standard calling for at least 50% attendance on average for meetings held in the past fiscal year.
Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) meets the remaining 19 Standards for Charity Accountability.
SWC is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action through its Museum of Tolerance.
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 News Room - Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies
The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies honoured Montreal psychologist, educator and trainer Dr. Myrna Lashley of the Centre for Research Action and Race Relations last week for her efforts in promoting multicultural understanding.
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, a Toronto – based NGO and human rights organization and its 40,000 Canadian members of all denominations, has requested a meeting with CUPE Ontario President Sid Ryan “to rationally discuss and resolve the union’s outrageous position on Israel.” Read more...
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, is in Canada this week to present the group's annual report of digital terrorism and hate to the new Canadian government.
www.fswc.ca /news_room.htm   (2715 words)

  
 The Simon Wiesenthal Center: A Bastion of Jewish-Zionist Power
The Center’s imposing “Museum of Tolerance” in West Los Angeles, which presents a relentlessly Jewish-Zionist version of history, draws some 350,000 visitors each year, including tens of thousands of school children who are brought in busloads.
As the world now knows, the Center's claims about Iraq– which matched those of the Bush administration – were empty propaganda pretexts designed to persuade a skeptical public to support unprovoked war against a country that posed no threat to the United States.
SWC news release, “SWC and Mel Gibson’s Film The Passion of the Christ,” February 2004.
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 z Notes : Simon Wiesenthal Center
NEWS RELEASE June 5, 1997 Wiesenthal Center Protest to Nobel Committee: Revoke Yasser Arafat's Nobel Peace Prize The Simon Wiesenthal Center today urged the Chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee to rescind the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat.
It is the Center's position that the WEB is a form of advertising, with the ISPs selling space to individuals, and therefore theyt have every right to limit what goes on their server.
The phenomenal growth and impact of the Simon Wiesenthal Center is a reflection of the predominant financial-political forces in American society today, and consequently of its prevailing cultural values and historical outlook.
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 Simon Wiesenthal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wiesenthal was born Szymon Wiesenthal, half an hour before midnight on 31 December 1908 in Buczacz, Ukrainian Galicia (at the time a part of Austria-Hungary, now a part of the Lviv Oblast section of Ukraine) to a Jewish merchant family.
In a subsequent opinion piece, Haim Mass argued that many of Harel's specific allegations against Wiesenthal could be disproved and that Wiesenthal had initiated the hunt for Eichmann by providing the first photograph of the SS Colonel.
Simon Wiesenthal has also been criticized in relation with his handling of the Frank Walus case.
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 The Simon Wiesenthal Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
A more recent expression of the Center's close Hollywood ties is the 1995 HBO made-for-television motion picture, "The Infiltrator," a highly flattering portrayal of the Center and its work (in which IHR Director Mark Weber is smeared, by name, as a "big time fascist").
Giving the Wiesenthal Centers another $5 million in state tax dollars when clinics and hospitals are closing, local schools' teaching budgets are being cut and public libraries fight to keep open on even a limited basis is difficult to justify.
When the Wiesenthal Center opened the doors of its eight-story, $50 million "Museum of Tolerance" in 1993, American television, newspapers and magazines responded with an outpouring of flattering coverage.
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 Charity Navigator Rating - Simon Wiesenthal Center
Established in 1977, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to repairing the world one step at a time.
The Center's multifaceted mission generates changes through the Snider Social Action Institute and education by confronting antisemitism, hate and terrorism, promoting human rights and dignity, standing with Israel, defending the safety of Jews worldwide, and teaching the lessons of the Holocaust for future generations.
The Museum of Tolerance, the Center's educational arm, was founded in 1993 and challenges visitors to confront bigotry and racism, and to understand the Holocaust in both historic and contemporary contexts.
www.charitynavigator.org /index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/4469.htm   (331 words)

  
 An Overview of The Simon Wiesenthal Center
Such is the political clout wielded by the Center that California lawmakers recently voted to give it a second $5 million grant of state taxpayers' funds.
A Wiesenthal Center "National Tribute Dinner" in November 1989 provided another opportunity to manifest the organization's wide-ranging influence.32 Speakers included Simon Wiesenthal, Israeli premier Yitzhak Shamir, and Center Chairman Samuel Belzberg, with awards to prominent media personalities, including MCA President Sidney Sheinberg and actor Ben Kingsley.
Wiesenthal Center official Aaron Breitbart castigated the IHR in an article published in the 1986 Jewish Directory and Almanac.
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 Wiesenthal Center Retaliation Call Contradicts Simon Wiesenthal's Beliefs : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In direct contradiction of Nazi-hunter and humanitarian Simon Wiesenthal's lifelong belief in justice and due process in dealing with those responsible for the murders of Jews, The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center has published a press release that openly calls for violent retaliation for the recent Tel Aviv Disco Bombing.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center was founded in 1977 in Los Angeles, California by Rabbi Marvin Heir and is named in honor of Simon Wiesenthal.
I am not surprised by this warmongering by the Simon Wiesenthal Center as they are not socialists; they support capitalism.
sf.indymedia.org /news/2001/06/100943.php   (763 words)

  
 Simon Wiesenthal Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Simon Wiesenthal had nothing to do with the operation or activities of the SWC other than giving it its name.
In November 2005, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Jerusalem Director, Dr. Efraim Zuroff, located Aribert Heim, who had been hiding in Spain for 20 years.
Also, the Simon Wiesenthal Center sharply criticized MoveOn.org for accepting and posting an ad comparing President George Bush to Adolf Hitler during the 2004 U.S. election.
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 Simon Wiesenthal Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action.
The Center confronts important contemporary issues including racism, antisemitism, terrorism and genocide and is accredited as a non-governmental organization (NGO) both at the United Nations and UNESCO.
Other issues that the Center deals with include: the prosecution of Nazi war criminals; Holocaust and tolerance education; Middle East Affairs; and extremist groups, neo-Nazism, and hate on the Internet.
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 Home - Simon Wiesenthal Center
Wiesenthal Center Praises New UN Chief For Responding Directly To Iranian Regime?s Holocaust Denial And Threats Against Israel
Simon Wiesenthal Center: Jewish Extremists At Tehran Conference Defame The Memory Of Six Million; Endanger Jews Everywhere
Wiesenthal Center Signs Cooperation Accord with PARLATINO (Latin American Parliament)
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 Simon Wiesenthal Center
June 2003: "The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action.
The Center confronts important contemporary issues including racism, antisemitism, terrorism and genocide and is accredited as an NGO both at the United Nations and UNESCO.
QUOTE: Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, one of the groups that spearheaded the fight against the book in France, said that he and the organization would try to organize massive protest against an American edition of the book.
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 Reagan at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Awards Presentation Ceremony
For what Simon Wiesenthal represents are the animating principles of Western civilization since the day Moses came down from Sinai: the idea of justice, the idea of laws, the idea of the free will.
His life is testimony to his unwavering commitment to do honor to those who burned in the flames of the Holocaust by bringing their murderers and the accomplices of their murderers to the justice of a civilized world that, two score after, still reels in astonishment and disgust.
And like Simon Wiesenthal, the animating principles of the State of Israel are justice and law tempered with compassion—yes, the very principles of Judaism itself.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/US-Israel/Reagan_Israel22.html   (897 words)

  
 The Hatemeisters: the Simon Wiesenthal Center
The Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual states that it concentrates on the scholarly study of the Holocaust.
Simon Wiesenthal Center's Dean Abe Cooper is worried about the teaching of the Holocaust.
Wiesenthal Center accepts that Gestapo-chief Müller (100) may be dead (but still grinds that gristmill)
www.fpp.co.uk /docs/Wiesenthal   (582 words)

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