Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Wiesenthal dies at 96

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

Wiesenthal, who helped find one-time SS leader Adolf Eichmann and the policeman who arrested Anne Frank, died in his sleep at his home in Vienna, said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles.

"I think he'll be remembered as the conscience of the Holocaust. In a way he became the permanent representative of the victims of the Holocaust, determined to bring the perpetrators of the greatest crime to justice," Mr Hier said.