Simon Wiesenthal

Wiesenthal is one of those rare figures whose moral weight only grows with time. What moves me most is the pivot: a trained architect who could have rebuilt his life quietly instead spent decades insisting the world not forget. He pursued the guilty not out of vengeance but out of a stubborn fidelity to memory and the dead, and the cascade of honors he received only confirms how singular that mission was. I admire the patience of it most of all. From a small town in Ukraine, one survivor turned remembrance itself into a lifelong vocation, and that quiet persistence still humbles me.

Name (English)

Simon Wiesenthal

Name (Japanese)

サイモン・ヴィーゼンタール

Reading

さいもん・ゔぃーぜんたーる

Born

December 31, 1908 – September 20, 2005

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Monkey

Origin

Buchach, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

Occupation

Nazis hunter / autobiographer / architect / advocate / opinion journalist

Awards & achievements

• Knight of the Legion of Honour
• Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• 2005 Great Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
• Order of the White Lion 3rd Class
• 2000 Presidential Medal of Freedom
• 1992 Erasmus Prize
• Four Freedoms Award – Freedom from Fear

• Official sitehttps://www.wiesenthal.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Wiesenthal
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49086

Tags

• Ternopil Oblast
• Nazis hunter
• autobiographer
• architect

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.