Wiesenthal was a Holocaust survivor who devoted his life to tracking down Nazi war criminals and documenting their crimes.

After surviving several Nazi camps, he was liberated by U.S. forces at the Mauthausen concentration camp in May 1945.

• He helped locate Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor extermination camps; Karl Silberbauer, the Austrian police officer who arrested Anne Frank; and has claimed to have played a significant role in tracking down Adolf Eichmann.

• His honors include a Congressional Gold Medal (1980), the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2000), and an honorary British knighthood (2004).

His bibliography includes: • The Murderers Among Us (1967) • The Sunflower (1969)