SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Simon Wiesenthal

1908 - 2005

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Simon Wiesenthal (31 December 1908 – 20 September 2005) was an Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture, and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Janowska concentration camp (late 1941 to September 1944), the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp (September to October 1944), the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, a death march to Chemnitz, Buchenwald, and the Mauthausen concentration camp (February to May 1945). After the war, Wiesenthal dedicated his life to tracking down and gathering information on fugitive Nazi war criminals, so that they could be brought to trial. In 1947, he co-founded the Jewish Historical Documentation Centre in Linz, Austria, where he and others gathered information for future war crime trials and aided Jewish refugees in their search for lost relatives. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Simon Wiesenthal is the 40th most popular social activist, the 41st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 46th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Social Activist.

Simon Wiesenthal was a Holocaust survivor who spent the rest of his life tracking down Nazi war criminals.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Simon Wiesenthal ranks 40 out of 840. Before him are Bacha Khan, Toussaint Louverture, Jan Palach, Ferdinand Lassalle, Irena Sendler, and Omar Mukhtar. After him are Sadako Sasaki, Lady Godiva, Simon bar Kokhba, Olympe de Gouges, Bhagat Singh, and Alfred Hermann Fried.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Simon Wiesenthal ranks 20. Before him are Willard Van Orman Quine, Olivier Messiaen, Hannes Alfvén, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Don Bradman, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. After him are Bette Davis, Anna Magnani, John Bardeen, Ian Fleming, David Oistrakh, and Józef Gosławski. Among people deceased in 2005, Simon Wiesenthal ranks 12. Before him are Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Claude Simon, Arthur Miller, George Best, Paul Ricœur, and Peter Drucker. After him are Hans Bethe, Rinus Michels, Rafic Hariri, Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Omar Sívori, and Zhao Ziyang.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Simon Wiesenthal ranks 41 out of 1,365. Before him are Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942), Petro Poroshenko (1965), Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916), Grigory Zinoviev (1883), Ludwig von Mises (1881), and Wilhelm Reich (1897). After him are Trofim Lysenko (1898), Symon Petliura (1879), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Igor Sikorsky (1889), George Gamow (1904), and Joseph Roth (1894).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Ukraine

Among social activists born in Ukraine, Simon Wiesenthal ranks 1. After him are Fanny Kaplan (1890), Georgy Gapon (1870), Alexander Pechersky (1909), David Riazanov (1870), Haim Arlosoroff (1899), Borys Romanchenko (1926), Maria Nikiforova (1885), Sergei Kovalev (1930), Alfreda Markowska (1926), Leo Deutsch (1855), and Olga Lepeshinskaya (1916).

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