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The original museum in Los Angeles, California, opened in 1993. It was built at a cost of $50 million by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, named after its founder Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter. [2] The museum receives 350,000 visitors annually, about a third of which are school-age children.
The Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem (MTJ; Hebrew: מוזיאון הסובלנות ירושלים) is a museum, convention center and entertainment venue in downtown Jerusalem. [ 1] The museum's construction was controversial due to its intrusion into the Mamilla Cemetery, a centuries-old Muslim burial site. [ 2]
e. Simon Wiesenthal. The Simon Wiesenthal Center ( SWC) is a Jewish [ 1] human rights organization established in 1977 by Rabbi Marvin Hier. [ 2][ 3][ 4] The center is known for Holocaust research and remembrance, hunting Nazi war criminals, combating anti-Semitism, tolerance education, defending Israel, [ 5] and its Museum of Tolerance. [ 6]
The Museum of Tolerance, pictured in 2022, privately screened "Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre" on Wednesday. (Unique Nicole / Getty Images)
1939 (age 84–85) New York City, U.S. Occupation. Rabbi. Children. 2 sons. Marvin (Moshe Chaim) Hier (born 1939 in New York City) is the dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, [ 1] its Museum of Tolerance [ 2] and of Moriah, the center's film division. He has been a Track II diplomacy contributor to the genesis of the Abraham Accords.
Mizel was a co-founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Los Angeles based international human rights organization that promotes tolerance and combats racism and anti-Semitism around the world. [18] He was the second to hold the position of International Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an appointment he held ...
The Museum of Tolerance describes itself as the educational arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Jewish human rights organization named for a renowned Nazi hunter.
This is a list of the last surviving people suspected of participation in Nazi war crimes, based on wanted lists published by Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Beginning in 2002, Zuroff produced an Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi war criminals which from 2004 to 2018 included a list of the ...