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Biography
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 & recognition
- Great Golden Medal of Honour — Services to the Republic of Austria · 2005
- Presidential Medal of Freedom · 2000
- Ehrenpreis des österreichischen Buchhandels für Toleranz in Denken und Handeln · 1995
- honorary doctor of Comenius University · 1995
- honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow · 1994
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- Austrian Decoration — Science and Art First Class · 1993
- Erasmus Prize · 1992
- Otto Hahn Peace Medal · 1991
- honorary doctor of the University of Vienna · 1990
- Commander of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
- Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau
- Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Congressional Gold Medal
- Decoration — Services to the Liberation of Austria
- Four Freedoms Award – Freedom from Fear
- Grand Cross of the Order Bernardo O'Higgins
- honorary doctor of Ben-Gurion University
- honorary doctor of the Bar-Ilan University
- honorary doctor of the Palacký University Olomouc
- Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Order of the White Lion 3rd Class
