The Simon Wiesenthal Centre said today it had passed the names of four suspected former Nazi criminals to German authorities so that they can be brought to justice before they die.

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Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal was today lauded as “the conscience of the Holocaust” as he was laid to rest in Israel, the country that grew out of the ashes of those dark days.

Diplomats, activists and political leaders were among hundreds who gathered today to bid farewell to Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and to honour his decades-long pursuit of the Second World War’s most heinous criminals.

A memorial service is to be held in Vienna, Austria, today for holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Wiesenthal who died yesterday aged 96.

HOLOCAUST survivor and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal died yesterday aged 96.

The chief rabbi of the Jewish community in Ireland has paid tribute to Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal, who died in Austria this morning at the age of 96.

Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down numerous Nazi war criminals following the Second World War then spent the later decades of his life fighting anti-Semitism and prejudice against all people, died today.

Austria’s president honoured famed Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal with one of the country’s highest prizes today, recognising his achievements over decades in tracking criminals from the Second World War.