Research Project Information.

This is a timeline I made for my research paper on Simon Wiesenthal. I got a lot of this information from one of his books called, "The Murderers Among Us." He interests me because of his strength and preserverance to make it through nazi death camps and to then bring in nazi war criminals for persecution.


Simon Wiesenthal
Born- December 31, 1908 in Buczacz
Early childhood was good, father well known for trading sugar and other wholesale commodities. When the first world war broke out his father was called to duty and died in action in 1917. his remaining family sought refuge in Austria. When the Russians pulled out of Austria, they moved back to Buczacs.
1925- his mother remarries and moves with Simon’s brother to the Carpathian mountains.
1927- he graduates high school, attended Technical university in Prague
1932- graduates from the university with a degree in architectural engineering
1934-35- he is an apprentice in Kharkov and Kiev, Russia. Then spends the rest of his apprenticeship in Odessa
1936- Returns to Galicia and Marries Cyla Muller
1939- Germans invade
1941- saved from execution by a Ukranian Auxilary Policeman
1942- his mother dies in Belzec
1943- escaped from Janowska just before they killed the inmates.
1944- Recaptured by the Gestapo
1946- Simon and Cyla have their only child Pauline
1947- he and 30 other volunteers founded the Jewish Documation Center
1947-1962- studying on war criminals and aiding those in need of help from WW2.
1962- Adolph Eichmann is executed
1970’s- gets involved in Australian politics
1975- Wiesenthall accused of working with the Nazi’s and Gestapo
1982- received many death threats including a bomb left by German and Austrian neo-Nazi’s
2003(April)- retires
2003(November)- wife dies of natural causes
September 20, 2005- Simon Wiesenthall dies.