- published: 04 Feb 2016
- views: 32
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.
After four and a half years in the German concentration camps such as Janowska, Plaszow, and Mauthausen during World War II, Wiesenthal dedicated most of his life to tracking down and gathering information on fugitive Nazis so that they could be brought to justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity. In 1947, he co-founded the Jewish Historical Documentation Center in Linz, Austria, in order to gather information for future war crime trials. Later he opened the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna. Wiesenthal wrote The Sunflower, which describes a life-changing event he experienced when he was in the camp.
Wiesenthal died in his sleep at age 96 in Vienna on September 20, 2005, and was buried in the city of Herzliya in Israel on September 23. He is survived by his daughter, Paulinka Kriesberg, and three grandchildren. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, located in Los Angeles, is named in his honor.
Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji;Gujarati:કૃષ્ણા પંડિત ભાનજી; 31 December 1943) is an English actor who has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He is also known for his performances in the films Schindler's List (1993), Sexy Beast (2000), House of Sand and Fog (2003), and Hugo (2011).
Kingsley was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji in Snainton, North Yorkshire, England, the son of Anna Lyna Mary (née Goodman), an actress and model, and Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, a medical doctor.
Kingsley's father, born in Kenya, is of Gujarati Indian descent; Kingsley's paternal grandfather was a spice trader who had moved from India to Zanzibar, where Kingsley's father lived until moving to England at the age of 14. Kingsley's mother, born out of wedlock, was "loath to speak of her background". Kingsley's maternal grandfather was believed by the family to have been a Russian or German Jew, while Kingsley's maternal grandmother was English and worked in the garment district of East London.
Actors: Treat Williams (actor), Ferenc Némethy (actor), David R. Ginsburg (producer), Jacqueline Saint Anne (costume designer), Christopher Young (composer), Philip Saville (director), Ági Margitai (actress), Zoltán Gera (actor), Alice Krige (actress), Martin Landau (actor), Péter Kertész (actor), Skip Schoolnik (editor), János Kulka (actor), Jodhi May (actress), Jonny Phillips (actor),
Plot: Based on the fact-based novel by Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal based on his 1962 prosecution of the head of a Polish factory whom he learns was a murderous labor camp commandant. To be able to take him to justice, he must find witnesses who can help him. This leads him to Max Rosenberg, a still tormented individual who lost his wife, Helen, in the camps. Initially Max refuses to cooperate, but gradually his story unfolds beginning before the Holocaust.
Keywords: based-on-book, based-on-true-story, character-name-in-title, holocaust, jewishActors: Miriam Margolyes (actress), Harry Towb (actor), Ferenc Némethy (actor), Fritz von Friedl (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Jack Shepherd (actor), Craig T. Nelson (actor), Paul Freeman (actor), Zoltán Gera (actor), Anton Lesser (actor), Péter Kertész (actor), Ben Kingsley (actor), Oliver Ford Davies (actor), David R. Ginsburg (producer), Renée Soutendijk (actress),
Plot: A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the leading Nazi hunters in the world, bringing such criminals to justice as Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbee.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, jew, nazi-hunterActors: Georg Marischka (actor), Hannes Messemer (actor), Hans Caninenberg (actor), Alexander Allerson (actor), Günter Meisner (actor), Herbert Fux (actor), Michael Gahr (actor), Alexander Golling (actor), Derek Jacobi (actor), Peter Jeffrey (actor), Walter Feuchtenberg (actor), Kurt Meisel (actor), Wolfgang Lukschy (actor), Klaus Löwitsch (actor), Joachim Dietmar Mues (actor),
Plot: After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. Miller eventually finds himself involved with the powerful organization of former SS members, called ODESSA, as well as with the Israeli secret service. Miller probes deeper and eventually discovers a link between the SS-Captain, ODESSA, and his own family.
Keywords: 1960s, attempted-murder, based-on-novel, bayreuth-bavaria, brass-band, bribe-attempt, bridge, carbon-monoxide-poisoning, chance, child-execution