Simon Wiesenthal Center
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Key facts
- Named after
- Simon Wiesenthal
- Founded
- 1977 ; 49 years ago ( 1977 )
- Founders
- Simon Wiesenthal
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Key people
- Marvin Hier , Abraham Cooper
- Revenue
- US$25,359,129 (2018)
- Expenses
- US$26,181,569 (2018)
- Staff
- 136 (2016)
- Website
- wiesenthal .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- nonprofit organization
- Named after
- Simon Wiesenthal
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Simon Wiesenthal
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles
- Revenue
- 24512975
- Legal form
- 501(c)(3) organization
- Official website
- www.wiesenthal.com
- Image
- Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building (Simon Wiesenthal Center), Los Angeles.JPG
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- Commons category
- Simon Wiesenthal Center
- inception
- 1977-00-00
- social media followers
- 16723
- short name
- SWC
- native label
- Simon Wiesenthal Center
- director / manager
- Marvin Hier
- donations
- 17181040
- partnership with
- UNESCO
- proxy
- Buenos Aires
- total assets
- 74863894
- has works in the collection
- Anne Frank House
- number of viewers/listeners
- 682719
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Encyclopedic overview
Simon Wiesenthal
The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) is a Jewish human rights organization established in 1977 by Rabbi Marvin Hier. The center is known for Holocaust research and remembrance, hunting Nazi war criminals, combating antisemitism, tolerance education, defending Israel, and its Museum of Tolerance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Simon Wiesenthal Center” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.