Petah Tikva
In 2020, the municipality of Petach Tikva, Israel, named a street after Simon Wiesenthal.
Simon Wiesenthal Streets
Herzliya
In June 2009, Mr. Michael Rendi, the former Austrian Ambassador to Israel, together with Ms. Ya’el German, at the time Mayor of Herzliya, dedicated a street to Simon Wiesenthal.
Herzliya
In June 2009, Mr. Michael Rendi, the former Austrian Ambassador to Israel, together with Ms. Ya’el German, at the time Mayor of Herzliya, dedicated a street to Simon Wiesenthal.
Petah Tikva
In 2020, the municipality of Petach Tikva, Israel, named a street after Simon Wiesenthal.
Paris
The inauguration took place in 2016, with the participation of the Mayor of the District, Simon and Cyla’s family, several diplomats, religious and community leaders, and members of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre – Europe. With this symbolic naming of a Place, Paris wishes to remember the life mission of Simon Wiesenthal and the support his wife Cyla provided to enable him to accomplish his goals.
Vienna
Upon the passing of Simon Wiesenthal in 2006, the Israelite Religious Community (IKG) renamed the Ichmanngasse in Leopoldstadt the Simon-Wiesenthal-Gasse. The decision was made by the Vienna’s Council’s Cultural Committee, headed by Andreas Mailath-Pokorny. A few Jewish institutions are located on the street: Zwi Perez Chajes School of the Jewish Community of Vienna, the Senatorium Maimonides (Parents’ Home, Nursing Home, Day Care Center and Hospital Administration Ltd.), and the Anne Kohn-Feuermann Day Care Center.
Buenos Aires
The inauguration of the Simon Wiesenthal Square in Buenos Aires took place on 11 July 2022.
The previous year, in 2021, an agreement was signed with the Profesional Futbol League that every year a Simon Wiesenthal Award will be given to the club, player or trainer that had shown the best practices against hate, discrimination, xenophobia, racism or antisemitism.
Paris
The inauguration took place in 2016, with the participation of the Mayor of the District, Simon and Cyla’s family, several diplomats, religious and community leaders, and members of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre – Europe. With this symbolic naming of a Place, Paris wishes to remember the life mission of Simon Wiesenthal and the support his wife Cyla provided to enable him to accomplish his goals.
Vienna
Upon the passing of Simon Wiesenthal in 2006, the Israelite Religious Community (IKG) renamed the Ichmanngasse in Leopoldstadt the Simon-Wiesenthal-Gasse. The decision was made by the Vienna’s Council’s Cultural Committee, headed by Andreas Mailath-Pokorny. A few Jewish institutions are located on the street: Zwi Perez Chajes School of the Jewish Community of Vienna, the Senatorium Maimonides (Parents’ Home, Nursing Home, Day Care Center and Hospital Administration Ltd.), and the Anne Kohn-Feuermann Day Care Center.
Institutions named after Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal Center & Museum of Tolerance
This center is a global human rights organization with strong emphasis on education. Its headquarters are in Los Angeles, which also houses the museum. Additional centers focus on combating anti-Semitism (France), search for Nazi criminals (Jerusalem),and humanity and tolerance (USA and South America).
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies
During the last years of his life, Simon Wiesenthal was particularly eager to make his personal archive, which had grown out of his many years of work, accessible to research. He wanted the documents to form the basis for further research with new questions in the context of an academic institute, and thereby wanted the spirit of his work to be preserved in a time when both the perpetrators and the victims of the Nazi era will have died. In the year 2000, when Simon Wiesenthal was still alive, several renowned Viennese academic institutions and the Jewish Community of Vienna (IKG) initiated the establishment of an international centre for research into the Holocaust. Simon Wiesenthal still had the opportunity to personally contribute to the design of the resulting “Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies” before his death in September 2005. The institute was intended, in accordance with the spirit of his life’s work, to be dedicated to research, documentation, and education on all issues relating to antisemitism, racism, nationalism, and the Holocaust, while remaining above all open to new and innovative developments in relevant areas of research. It was finally decided in 2008 that the Republic of Austria and the City of Vienna would finance the three-year foundation phase of the institute on the basis of a detailed plan of working stages together with the Jewish Community (IKG) and the supporting organisation of the Simon Wiesenthal archive, the Association of Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime. The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) is active in three central fields. Its documentation activity centres on its collections, the Holocaust-related parts of the IKG archive, which are on loan to the institute, and the estate of Simon Wiesenthal with its extensive holdings on Nazi perpetrators, as well as the VWI library. On the basis of these collections, which are either owned by or accessible at the institute, the VWI conducts its research activities in the form of projects and the initiation of publications.
Prizes in the name of Simon Wiesenthal
The Simon Wiesenthal Prize for civic engagement to combat antisemitism and promote Holocaust education.
Award of the Simon Wiesenthal Prize 2021
The Simon Wiesenthal Prize 2021 goes to the contemporary witnesses Lily Ebert, Zwi Nigal, Karl Pfeifer and Liliana Segre. The Central Austrian Post-War Justice Research Centre and the Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against Anti-Semitism were also honoured.
More info at https://www.wiesenthalpreis.at