Simon Wiesenthal Research Paper

Simon wiesenthal was born on December 31, 1908, in a small town in buczacz. He had one sibling named hillel wiesenthal. As a child he had a very difficult time growing up, his father died in world war II and when Simon was just ten “a Cossack gashed his leg open with a saber” (Wiesenthal Simon). He was also limited on where he could go to college because of these Jewish enrolment issues he went to school for architectural engineering at the technical university in Prague (Wiesenthal Simon). After Simon graduated in 1932 he opended up his business in the city of lvov. He then decided to marry Cyla Muller who’d been his girlfriend from high school (Biography). Shortly after opening his shop the red army overran the city, “Wiesenthal’s stepfather was arrested and his stepbrother was shot” (Wiesenthal Simon). This caused Wiesenthal to close his business, and work in a factory.

After the red army occupation in Lvov the “German soldiers displace the Russian officers and gathered up the city’s Jews for execution” ( Wiesenthal Simon).

The Germans began executioning all the jews, Wiesenthal life was spared when the Church bells ran and the soldiers retreated for evening mass ( Wiesenthal Simon). After Wiesenthal was spared he was put into forced labor at Easter Railway plants. During the time Wiesenthal was in this camp his mother was executed and because of his wife's blonde hair should was smuggled out by the Polish underground (“Simon Wiesenthal”). “On April 20, 1943 Wiesenthal was among a group of men selected for execution in honor of German dictator Adolf Hitler’s birthday. During the proceeding, an official decided someone needed to paint a swastika banner for the occasion and chose Wiesenthal” ( Wiesenthal Simon). A year later an official helped him escape Janowska, just before the Final solution was put into operation ( “Simon Wiesenthal”). A year after his escape he was recaptured and sent back to

Janowska