WIESENTHAL (Simon, 1908-2005, Holocaust Survivor, Architect and Nazi-hunter)

Colour photograph signed together with his compliments slip and the envelope that sent it to David Milner, 5" x 3½", no place, no date postmarked Vienna

Wiesenthal 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-Gusen concentration camp (February to 5 May 1945). After the war he dedicated his life to tracking down and gathering information on fugitive Nazi war criminals so that they could be brought to trial. In 1947, he co-founded the Jewish Historical Documentation Centre in Linz.

Item Date:  1983

Stock No:  39958