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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 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.
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 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.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center awards both the Bruno Brand Tolerance Prize and the Sandra Brand Memorial Book Award to non-fiction works on the subject of tolerance thanks to endowments from her. During the war, she pretended to be Cecilya Szarek (as described in her book I Dared to Live), and was helped by a German officer. List of works
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 ...
The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) is a research centre dedicated to the research and documentation of and education on all aspects of antisemitism, racism and the Holocaust, including its emergence and aftermath. It was designed by Simon Wiesenthal as well as international and Austrian researchers.