Transcript Simon Wiesenthal - holocaustpresentation2

Who?
• Austrian Holocaust survivor who
became famous after World War II
for his work as a Nazi hunter.
•Wiesenthal survived the
Holocaust but lost his mother and
many other family members
during the ordeal in which six
million European Jews were
annihilated.
• He dedicated his life to
documenting the crimes of the
Holocaust and to hunting down
the perpetrators still at large.
•Wiesenthal began gathering and preparing evidence on
Nazi atrocities for the War Crimes Section of the United
States Army. After the war, he also worked for the Army's
Office of Strategic Services and Counter-Intelligence Corps
and headed the Jewish Central Committee of the United
States Zone of Austria, a relief and welfare organization.
He was born in Buczacz, Galicia (part of Ukraine); died
of kidney disease in Vienna, Austria.
•Wiesenthal was born on December 31, 1908, in
September 20, 2005
• He escaped the Ostbahn camp in October 1943, just
before the Germans began liquidating all the inmates.
•In June 1944, he was recaptured and sent back to
Janwska where he would almost certainly have been
killed had the German eastern front not collapsed
under the advancing Red Army.
•Simon Wiesenthal died peacefully in his sleep at his
home.
•Mr. Wiesenthal was tireless in his pursuit of Nazi war
criminals, and wanted to bring them to justice when much
of the world wanted to put the crimes behind them. He
was instrumental in bringing Eichmann to justice who had
escaped punishment for over 20 years.
•Thanks to him, Nazis were brought to justice for war
crimes and crimes against humanity.
•An organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in
particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe
• It is about six millions people burned and 4.1 millions of
Jews died in the pogroms of WWII.
• The pogroms is in the WWII and is from 1939 to 1945.
•In Russia or eastern Europe.
•The main cause of Pogroms is were nationalistic tensions,
unresolved issues, and resentments resulting from the First
World War and the interwar period in Europe, plus the effects
of the Great Depression in the 1930s.