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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.
1950 (age 73–74) New York City, U.S. Occupation. Rabbi. Abraham Cooper (born 1950) is an American rabbi. He is the associate dean and director of Global Social Action Agenda for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization. [1] He is chairman emeritus of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
He is the dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Museum of Tolerance and Moriah Films." [5] In 2007 and 2008 Marvin Hier was named the most influential rabbi in America by Newsweek. [6] Hier founded the Yeshiva University High Schools of Los Angeles and was the dean of the school until the 2006–2007 school year.
Efraim Zuroff (Hebrew: אפרים זורוף; born August 5, 1948) is an American-born Israeli historian and Nazi hunter who has played a key role in bringing Nazi and fascist war criminals to trial. Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center office in Jerusalem, is the coordinator of Nazi war crimes research worldwide for the Wiesenthal ...
The Holocaust Memorial at California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park (San Francisco) Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust [6] The Museum of Tolerance [7] (Los Angeles) The Pink Triangle Park (San Francisco) The Simon Wiesenthal Center (Los Angeles) The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation at University of Southern ...
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 ...
Sinatra met Simon Wiesenthal for the first time in 1979, telling the Nazi hunter that "he had been his hero for many years". [30] When he found out that the Simon Wiesenthal Center was trying to produce the documentary Genocide, Sinatra told them, "Although I'm not Jewish, the Holocaust is important to me", and offered $100,000 to the project. [30]