Life of simon wiesenthal

The Life of Simon Wiesenthal

Simon Wiesenthal fought insatiably against indifference towards the crimes of National Socialism, against the failure to call its perpetrators to account.

From the day of his liberation from the concentration camp Mauthausen onwards, he made it his life's task to find Nazi perpetrators and bring them to justice. His creed in this battle was „Justice, not Revenge“, as one of his many books' titles says.

He was born on New Years' night 1908 in Buczacz, in the formerly Austrian territory of Galicia and studied architecture at the Technical University in Prague after he had been denied admission to the University of Lvov (then part of Poland) due to the antisemitic numerus clausus laws.

Having completed his studies in 1932, he returned to Galicia, married his childhood sweetheart Cyla in 1936 and established an architect's office. Lvov was joined to the Sowiet Union through the Hitler-Stalin Pact in 1939, and Wiesenthal's office was nat