Founded in 1977, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish human rights organization that preserves the memory of the Holocaust. The center confronts important contemporary issues, including racism, anti-Semitism, terrorism and genocide and is accredited as a nongovernment organization both at the United Nations and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural...
In this age of perpetual anxiety, a visit to the Simon Wiesenthal Center should remind us all of how precious life is. The center is an international Jewish human rights organization, set up in 1977 by Simon Wiesenthal, a holocaust survivor himself. Built to ensure that the lives of millions of persecuted Jews does not get forgotten, it focuses on two main issues. One is to bring to the fore...