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Wie·sen·thal   (wē'sən-thäl', vē'zěn-täl')   
Ukranian-born Holocaust survivor who, as founder (1947) and head of the Jewish Documentation Center, tracked down more than 1,000 Nazi war criminals, most famously Adolf Eichmann.
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Wiesenthal, Simon

founder and head (1961-2003) of the Jewish Documentation Centre in Vienna. Wiesenthal was a longtime Nazi-hunter who, with the cooperation of the Israeli, West German, and other governments, tracked down more than 1,000 war criminals.

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