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Simon Wiesenthal

Simon Wiesenthal. Who? Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter.

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Simon Wiesenthal

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  1. Simon Wiesenthal Who? Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter. Wiesenthal survived the Holocaust but lost his mother and many other family members during the ordeal in which six million European Jews were annihilated. He dedicated his life to documenting the crimes of the Holocaust and to hunting down the perpetrators still at large.

  2. What? Wiesenthal began gathering and preparing evidence on Nazi atrocities for the War Crimes Section of the United States Army. After the war, he also worked for the Army's Office of Strategic Services and Counter-Intelligence Corps and headed the Jewish Central Committee of the United States Zone of Austria, a relief and welfare organization.

  3. Where? He was born in Buczacz, Galicia (part of Ukraine); died of kidney disease in Vienna, Austria.

  4. When Wiesenthal was born on December 31, 1908, in September 20, 2005 He escaped the Ostbahn camp in October 1943, just before the Germans began liquidating all the inmates. In June 1944, he was recaptured and sent back to Janwska where he would almost certainly have been killed had the German eastern front not collapsed under the advancing Red Army.

  5. How? Why? • Simon Wiesenthal died peacefully in his sleep at hishome. Mr. Wiesenthal was tireless in his pursuit of Nazi war criminals, and wanted to bring them to justice when much of the world wanted to put the crimes behind them. He was instrumental in bringing Eichmann to justice who had escaped punishment for over 20 years. Thanks to him, Nazis were brought to justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

  6. POGROMS

  7. What? • An organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe How? It is about six millions people burned and 4.1 millions of Jews died in the pogroms of WWII.

  8. When? The pogroms is in the WWII and is from 1939 to 1945. Where? • In Russia or eastern Europe.

  9. Why? The main cause of Pogroms is were nationalistic tensions, unresolved issues, and resentments resulting from the First World War and the interwar period in Europe, plus the effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s.

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