About Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal 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, the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, a death march to Chemnitz, Buchenwald, and the Mauthausen concentration camp.
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Awards & Honors
Ehrenpreis des österreichischen Buchhandels für Toleranz in Denken und Handeln
Decoration for Services to the Liberation of Austria
Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Otto Hahn Peace Medal
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Congressional Gold Medal
Erasmus Prize
Order of the White Lion 3rd Class
honorary doctor of the University of Vienna
honorary doctor of Ben-Gurion University
honorary doctor of the Bar-Ilan University
Grand Cross of the Order Bernardo O'Higgins
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art First Class
honorary doctor of Comenius University
honorary doctor of the Palacký University Olomouc
Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Great Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
Four Freedoms Award – Freedom from Fear
honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow
Commander of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
