September 20, 2005
Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor who helped track down numerous Nazi war criminals after the end of World War II has died aged 96. Wiesenthal who spent the later decades of his life fighting anti-Semitism and prejudice, died at his home in Vienna, Austria. An architect before World War II, Wiesenthal changed his life's mission after the war, dedicating himself to trying to track down Nazi war criminals. He himself lost 89 relatives in the Shoah. Through his work, he said, some over 1,000 Nazi war criminals were brought to justice. "When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis were not able to kill millions of people and get away with it," he once said.
