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1908 – 2005Simon Wiesenthal (1908-2005)Died 20 September 2005, aged 96Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who devoted his life to tracking down Nazi war criminals, died on 20 September 2005. He helped bring more than a thousand perpetrators to justice through the documentation centre he founded in Vienna. Wiesenthal survived several concentration camps during the Second World War.