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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Simon Wiesenthal

1908 - 2005

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Simon Wiesenthal (31 December 1908 – 20 September 2005) was a Jewish 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simon Wiesenthal has received more than 3,550,523 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia. Simon Wiesenthal is the 33rd most popular social activist (up from 39th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 41st 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 33 out of 538. Before him are Emiliano Zapata, Omar Mukhtar, Martin Niemöller, Pheidippides, Élie Ducommun, and Ferdinand Lassalle. After him are Sadako Sasaki, Emily Greene Balch, Simon bar Kokhba, Nicholas Winton, Sophie Scholl, and Jan Palach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Simon Wiesenthal ranks 17. Before him are Ian Fleming, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Olivier Messiaen, Lev Landau, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Bette Davis. After him are Geli Raubal, Anna Magnani, John Bardeen, Edward Teller, Mika Waltari, and Amon Göth. Among people deceased in 2005, Simon Wiesenthal ranks 10. Before him are Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Peter Drucker, George Best, Claude Simon, Fahd of Saudi Arabia, and Paul Ricœur. After him are Arthur Miller, Rinus Michels, Pat Morita, Zhao Ziyang, Saul Bellow, and Aslan Maskhadov.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Simon Wiesenthal ranks 34 out of 1,083. Before him are Wilhelm Reich (1897), Sergei Korolev (1906), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Vladimir Horowitz (1903), Nestor Makhno (1888), and Andrei Chikatilo (1936). After him are Grigory Zinoviev (1883), Élie Metchnikoff (1845), Trofim Lysenko (1898), Yulia Tymoshenko (1960), Ivan Mazepa (1639), and Andrei Zhdanov (1896).

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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), Sergei Kovalev (1930), David Riazanov (1870), Olga Lepeshinskaya (1916), Anna Sharyhina (1978), and Ihor Kostenko (1991).

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