Wiesenthal himself is a survivor of the Holocaust: He was interned in several concentration camps, but was liberated by American forces in 1945.
He and his Vienna-based Jewish Documentation Center[?] were instrumental in the capture and conviction of the main engineer of the Endlösung, Adolf Eichmann.
Wiesenthal also helped find the Gestapo officer responsible for the arrest of Anne Frank: his confession helped falsify revisionist claims that the Anne Frank diary was a forgery.
The character of Yakov Liebermann in Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil is modelled on Wiesenthal, and Wiesenthal makes an appearance as a minor character in Frederick Forsyth[?]'s The Odessa File[?], providing information to a German journalist attempting to track down a Nazi war criminal.
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