Wiesenthal

[ wee-suhn-thahl, ‐thawl; German vee-zuhn-tahl ]

noun

Simon, 1908–2005, Austrian Holocaust survivor and hunter of Nazi war criminals.

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Others besides the Israelis and Wiesenthal made it their business to chase Nazi war criminals.
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Maybe those Wiesenthal people have a point when they complain that their attempts at compromise have been rebuffed.
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The Wiesenthal Center has every right to build there and is the victim of a political mugging.
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center is planning to build a Museum of Tolerance on the Muslim Mamilla cemetery.
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“I was delighted,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
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We went into the garden of our hotel in the Wiesenthal one day, and found the basin of the fountain there crammed with live trout.
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British Dictionary definitions for Wiesenthal

Wiesenthal

/ (ˈviːzənˌtɑːl) /

noun

Simon. 1908–2005, Austrian investigator of Nazi war crimes. A survivor of the concentration camps, he was active since 1945 in documenting Nazi crimes against the Jews, tracking down their perpetrators, and assisting surviving victims

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