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Article: Simon Wiesenthal Laid to Rest in Israel
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- September 23, 2005
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STEVEN GUTKIN, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
09-23-2005
Dateline: HERZLIYA, Israel
Family members and friends of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal gather around his body during his funeral at Herzliya cemetery near Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday Sept. 23, 2005. Hundreds of dignitaries, Holocaust survivors and admirers attended the funeral ceremony for Wiesenthal, who died Tuesday in his sleep at his Vienna home at 96. A survivor of five Nazi concentration camps and seven other prisons, Wiesenthal spent the rest of his life pursuing Nazi war criminals and bringing them to justice. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Simon Wiesenthal, who spent half a century tirelessly tracking down Nazis hiding throughout the ...