Simon Wiesenthal, KBE (December 31, 1908 – September 20, 2005) was an Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter. He was presented with many awards, merits, and honorary doctorates over the course of his life.
State awards edit
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Decoration for Services to the Liberation of Austria | 1979 |
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Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau | Netherlands |
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Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic | given by the Italian President Pertini, 20 July 1979[1] |
| Congressional Gold Medal | United States of America; March 17, 1980 | |
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Commander of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg | 1981 |
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Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany | from the President of the German Federal Republic, 1985 |
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Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur | France, 1986 |
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Cross of Honour for Science and Art | Austria, 1993 |
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Commander's Cross of the Polonia Restituta | Poland, 1994 |
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Commander of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg | 1995 |
| Title “Professor” | awarded by Austrian Federal President, Thomas Klestil, 1997 | |
| Silver Decoration of the Bosnian Coat of Arms | 1998 | |
| Order of the White Lion | Czech Republic, presented by President Václav Havel, 1999 | |
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Great Cross of the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins | Chile, 1999 |
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Presidential Medal of Freedom | United States of America, 9 August 2000 |
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Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire | 19 February 2004 In recognition of a "lifetime of service to humanity" and for his work at the Simon Wiesenthal Center |
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Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria | 9 June 2005[2] |
Local government honors edit
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| Diploma of Honor of the City of Los Angeles, 1978 |
| Diploma of Honor of the State of California |
| Honorary Citizen of Dallas, Texas, 1979 |
| Honorary Citizen of Louisville, Kentucky, USA, 1979 |
| Jerusalem Medal, presented by the Town Council of Jerusalem, 1980 |
| Proclamation of the City of New York - Day of Solidarity with Simon Wiesenthal, March 31, 1981 |
| Honorary Citizen of Miami Beach, Florida, USA, 1983 |
| Honorary Citizen of Memphis, Tennessee, USA, 1984 |
| Honorary Citizen of Shelby County, Tennessee, USA, 1984 |
| The Assembly, Senate and Governor Mario M.Cuomo of the State of New York declare June 13, 1984 as "Simon Wiesenthal Day" |
| Grand Silver Medal of Honor for Merit; Federal State of Vienna, presented by Mayor Helmut Zilk, 1985 |
| Jerusalem Medal in 1985 |
| Medal of the City of Paris, 1992 |
| Ring of Honor of the City of Linz, Austria, 1995 |
| Honorary Citizen of the City of Vienna, 1995 |
Organisations edit
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| Diploma of Honor of the Internationale de Résistance, Brussels, 1973 |
| Dutch Medal for Freedom |
| Medal for Freedom of Luxemburg, 1973 |
| Needle of Honor of the Austrian Resistance Movement |
| Diploma of Honor of the League of the United Nations |
| Annual Award of Merit of the Decalogue Society of Lawyers, Chicago, Illinois, 1978 |
| Diploma of Honor of the Organization of Jewish War Veterans in USA |
| Honorary Member of the French Institut de Recherches de Psychotherapie |
| Jean-Moulin-Medaille, Medal of the French Resistance |
| Kaj-Munk-Medal, Denmark |
| Honorary Member of the Dutch Resistance |
| Honorary Member of the Danish Association of Freedom Fighters |
| Henrietta Szold Award, of the World WIZO Organization in the USA, 1979 |
| 14th Annual Susie Humanitarian Award of the Eddie Cantor Foundation, Los Angeles, 1980 |
| Justice Louis Brandeis Award of the Zionist Organization in the USA, 1980 |
| Medal of Honor of the Yad Vashem Foundation, Jerusalem |
| Member of the International Council of Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 1980 |
| David Award, Prize of Swiss Jewry for outstanding achievements, Jerusalem, 1981 |
| Gold Medal of the Union of Jewish Congregations in Austria, 1982 |
| Jabotinsky-Award of Anti-Defamation-League (ADL), 1988 |
| Franklin D.Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award, Middelburg, Netherlands, 1990 |
| Honorary President of the Austrian League for Human Rights, 1991 |
| Otto Hahn Peace Medal in Gold; German Society of the United Nations, Berlin, 1991 |
| National Hero Award, New York, United States, 1991 |
| UNESCO Medal of Honor, presented by UNESCO Director-General, Federico Mayor, Paris, 1992 |
| Erasmus Prize; for an important contribution to European culture and society, presented by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, 1992 |
| Award of LAPID - The Movement to Commemorate the Implications of the Holocaust in Israel, 1993 |
| Award of the Austrian Booksellers Association for Tolerance in Spirit and in Action, 1995 |
| Dedication of the Simon Wiesenthal House of AMCHA (National Israeli Center for Psychosocial Support of Survivors of the Holocaust and the Second Generation), Tel Aviv, 1997 |
| European Prize Pro Humanitate for Peace, Justice, and Tolerance, awarded by the Kultur-Fördergemeinschaft der Europäischen Wirtschaft, 1998 |
| Luxembourg Freedom Medal |
| Decorations from French resistance groups |
| Decorations from Austrian resistance groups |
| Israel Liberata Gold Medal |
| World Tolerance Award; presented by Michael Gorbatschov on “Men’s World Day” in Vienna, 3 November 2000 |
| Lo Tishkach Award, presented by the Conference of European Rabbis, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 2000 |
| Medal of Honor of the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP), The Hague, Netherlands, presented at the Documentation Center in Vienna, 17 April 2002 |
| Postage stamp issued in his honour by Austria and Israel Post in 2010 World Stamp News |
Academic institutions edit
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Wiesenthal was awarded 18 honorary doctorates from universities around the world, including seven faculties of law.[citation needed]
- Honorary member of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, 1989
- Honorary Member of the Academy of Science, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1994
- Human Rights Award of the Karl Franzens University, Graz, Austria, 1994
- Honorary Doctorate from the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 1994[3]
- Honorary doctorate from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel
References edit
- ^ "ONORIFICENZE; parametri di ricerca" (in Italian). Italian Presidency. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
- ^ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (pdf) (in German). p. 1705. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
- ^ It is often claimed that Wiesenthal was the first Jew to receive an honorary degree from the Jagiellonian University; this is not in fact the case. See: Adam Zagajewski (8 March 2012). "Jews Honored in Kraków". The New York Review of Books. 59 (4). Retrieved 18 February 2012.