Simon Wiesenthal (1908–2005)
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Simon Wiesenthal was born on December 31, 1908 in a small town near the present-day Ukrainian city of Lvov. He attended the Technical University of Prague after being turned away from the Polytechnic Institute in Lvov because of quota restrictions on Jewish students. He received his degree in mostrar más architectural engineering in 1932 and opened an architectural office in Lvov. He was forced to close his business at the beginning of World War II. By September 1942, a total of eighty-nine members of both his and his wife's families perished. He was liberated from the Mauthausen death camp in Austria by the Americans on May 5, 1945. It was his fifth death camp among the dozen Nazi camps in which he was imprisoned during the war. After the war, Wiesenthal began gathering and preparing evidence on Nazi atrocities for the War Crimes Section of the United States Army and other organizations. He spent more than 50 years hunting Nazi war criminals and speaking out against neo-Nazism and racism. His main function as a Nazi hunter was gathering and analyzing information and then passing it on to the appropriate authorities. According to him, his work helped bring about 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice; including Adolf Eichmann, Karl Silberbauer, and Franz Stangl. He died on September 20, 2005 in Vienna at the age of 96. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Simon Wiesenthal
Resistance 3 copias
Raoul Wallenberg, Retter von hunderttausend Juden : ein Opfer Himmlers und Stalins (1982) — Prólogo — 2 copias
Los asesinos entre nosotros memorias 2 copias
GLI ASSASSINI SONO FRA NOI 1 copia
Homeland. Cuarta temporada 1 copia
Segel der Hoffnung 1 copia
Les assassins sont parmi nous. La longue chasse aux criminels nazis - Capture d'Eichmann - Arrestation du bourreau… (1967) 1 copia
O caçador de nazistas 1 copia
Recht 1 copia
Az igazság malmai... 1 copia
Kristallnacht 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Journey through Darkness: Monowitz, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald (1999) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 15 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- ויזנטל, שמעון
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1908-12-31
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2005-09-20
- Lugar de sepultura
- Herzliya, Israel
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Austria
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Buczacz, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary (now Temopil Oblast, Ukraine)
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Vienna, Austria
- Lugares de residencia
- Vienna, Austria
- Educación
- Technical University, Prague (Architectural engineering, 1932)
- Ocupaciones
- President, Jewish Documentation Centre
Nazi hunter
Holocaust survivor
memoirist - Relaciones
- Lingens, Peter Michael (personal secretary)
Friedman, Tuviah (colleague) - Organizaciones
- Simon Wiesenthal Center
- Premios y honores
- Order of Polonia Restituta
Knight of the British Empire (2004)
Erasmus Prize (1992)
Legion d'Honneur (1986)
Congressional Gold Medal (1980) - Biografía breve
- Simon Wiesenthal was born in
Buczacz, then part of Austria-Hungary (present-day Ukraine), and studied architectural engineering at the Technical University of Prague and in Lviv. In 1936, he married Cyla Müller. After the Nazi invasion of Lviv in World War II in 1941, Wiesenthal was separated from his wife and sent to forced labor and to five German concentration camps, including Buchenwald and Mauthausen. He and his wife, who also managed to survive, were reunited at the end of the war. He founded and led the Jewish Documentation Centre in Vienna and dedicated his life to the search for and legal prosecution of Nazi war criminals and to promoting Holocaust memory and education. His best-known published work was his memoir, The Murderers Among Us (1967).
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Los asesinos entre nosotros por Simon Wiesenthal
"Los asesinos entre nosotros" son aquellos miembros de las SS y de la Gestapo que colaboraron en esos crímenes y que, después de la guerra, pretendieron continuar con sus vidas bajo nombres ficticios e incluso con sus propios nombres. El Centro de Documentación Judía, fundado por Wiesenthal, siguió la pista de muchos de ellos y consiguió ponerlos a disposición de la justicia.
Desarrolla una teoría que se basa en que la coincidencia cronológica de la expulsión de los judíos de España por los Reyes Católicos (1492), y el viaje de Cristóbal Colón a las Indias (1492), no sería casual como se supone. Pudo tener relación directa, donde la mayoría de la tripulación de las carabelas estaría compuesta por judíos expulsados a América, que viajarían a su vez en busca de las tribus perdidas de Israel. Muy documentado.
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- Miembros
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- Popularidad
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- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
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- ISBNs
- 101
- Idiomas
- 14
- Favorito
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