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Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles. The center is headed by Jim Berk as CEO since January 2024, Rabbi Abraham Cooper the associate dean and Director of Global Social Action Agenda and Rabbi Meyer May, the executive director. Marvin Hier's wife, Marlene Hier, is the Director of Membership development.
The original museum in Los Angeles, California, opened in 1993. It was built at a cost of $50 million by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, named after its founder Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter. The museum receives 350,000 visitors annually, about a third of which are school-age children.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles was founded in 1977 by Rabbi Marvin Hier, who paid Wiesenthal an honorarium for the right to use his name. The centre helped with the campaign to remove the statute of limitations on Nazi crimes and continues the hunt for suspected Nazi war criminals, but today its primary activities include Holocaust ...
This is a list of the last surviving people suspected of participation in Nazi war crimes, based on wanted lists published by Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Beginning in 2002, Zuroff produced an Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi war criminals which from 2004 to 2018 included a list of the ...
Born. 1950 (age 73–74) New York City, U.S. Occupation. Rabbi. Abraham Cooper (born 1950) is an American rabbi. He is the associate dean and director of Global Social Action Agenda for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization. [1] He is chairman emeritus of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom .
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
Efraim Zuroff ( Hebrew: אפרים זורוף; born August 5, 1948) is an American-born Israeli historian and Nazi hunter who has played a key role in bringing Nazi and fascist war criminals to trial. Zuroff, the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center office in Jerusalem, is the coordinator of Nazi war crimes research worldwide for the ...
He is the dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Museum of Tolerance and Moriah Films." In 2007 and 2008 Marvin Hier was named the most influential rabbi in America by Newsweek. Hier founded the Yeshiva University High Schools of Los Angeles and was the dean of the school until the 2006–2007 school year.