St. Louis Jewish Light from St. Louis, Missouri • A35

BY RUTH ELLEN GRUBER JTA BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, Simon Wiesenthal, who died in Vienna on Tuesday at age 96, often was called the of the The legendary Nazi-hunter, who lost 89 members of his and his families in the Shoah, spent more than half a century collecting information on Nazi war criminals so they could be called to account for their crimes. Wiesenthal showed the world what one person determined to do the right thing can said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, whose mission is to combat anti-Semitism and track down remaining Nazi criminals. Working with a small staff from a cramped office in Vienna, Wiesenthal sifted through tens of thousands of documents and followed countless leads, compiling archives on Nazi criminals. Wiesenthal, who was liberated from Mauthausen in 1945, said his work stemmed from what many call Justice Not Vengeance the title of his 1989 autobiography served as motto and guiding principle. Wiesenthal began gathering and preparing evidence on Nazi atrocities for the U.S.

War Crimes Section immediately after World War II. High-profile fugitives that Wiesenthal helped find were Karl Silberbauer, the Gestapo officer who arrested Anne Frank; and Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps in Poland, according to the Web site. only value of nearly five decades of my work is a warning to the murderers of tomorrow that they will never he said in 1994. prominent public stand sparked threats, hate- mail and even a bomb on his doorstep, set by neo-Nazis in 1982. In 2003, in frail health, Wiesenthal said his work was complete.

found the mass murderers I was looking for, and I have outlived all of he told an Austrian magazine. a few I look for, they are now too old and fragile to stand trial. My work is The center that bears his name continues to search for World War II criminals; it currently operates the Operation Last Chance program, which offers rewards for information on those suspected of Nazi-era crimes. Wiesenthal was born on New Eve, 1908, in the town of Buczacz, now in Ukraine. He married Cyla Mueller in 1936 and worked in an architectural office in Lvov.

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