IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 248 
Honoring the life and work of Simon Wiesenthal and reaffirming the commit-
ment of Congress to the fight against anti-Semitism and intolerance 
in all forms, in all forums, and in all nations. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 20, 2005 
Mr. WAXMAN (for himself, Mr. LANTOS, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. 
CROWLEY, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, and Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas) sub-
mitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on International Relations 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Honoring the life and work of Simon Wiesenthal and re-
affirming the commitment of Congress to the fight 
against anti-Semitism and intolerance in all forms, in 
all forums, and in all nations. 
Whereas Simon Wiesenthal, who was known as the ‘‘con-
science of the Holocaust’’, was born on December 31, 
1908, in Buczacz, Austria-Hungary and died in Vienna, 
Austria, on September 20, 2005, and he dedicated the 
last 60 years of his life to the pursuit of justice for the 
victims of the Holocaust; 
Whereas, during World War II, Simon Wiesenthal worked 
with the Polish underground and was interned in 12 dif-
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ferent concentration camps until his liberation by the 
United States Army in 1945 from the Mauthausen camp; 
Whereas, after the war, Simon Wiesenthal worked for the 
War Crimes Section of the United States Army gathering 
documentation to be used in prosecuting the Nuremberg 
trials; 
Whereas Simon Wiesenthal’s investigative work and expan-
sive research was instrumental in the capture and convic-
tion of more than 1,000 Nazi war criminals, including 
Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Nazi plan to annihi-
late European Jewry, and Karl Silberbauer, the Gestapo 
officer responsible for the arrest and deportation of Anne 
Frank; 
Whereas numerous honors and awards were bestowed upon 
Simon Wiesenthal, including the Congressional Gold 
Medal, honorary British Knighthood, the Dutch Freedom 
Medal, the French Legion of Honor, the World Tolerance 
Award, and the Jerusalem Medal; 
Whereas the Simon Wiesenthal Center was founded in 1977 
to promote awareness of anti-Semitism, monitor neo-Nazi 
and other extremist groups, and help bring surviving 
Nazi war criminals to justice; 
Whereas the Simon Wiesenthal Center is headquartered in 
Los Angeles, California, and has additional offices in 
Buenos Aires, Jerusalem, New York, Miami, Paris, and 
Toronto; 
Whereas, in 1978, inspired in part by the work of Simon 
Wiesenthal, the Congress enacted a law to deny citizen-
ship and Federal benefits to former Nazi’s, and the Of-
fice of Special Investigations of the Department of Jus-
tice has since conducted more than 1,500 investigations,
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won 79 cases, and blocked the immigration of 170 indi-
viduals, and the work of the Office continues; 
Whereas the Simon Wiesenthal Center opened the Museum of 
Tolerance in Los Angeles in 1993, which has received 
over 2 million visitors, including thousands of students 
and teachers, law enforcement personnel, and other pro-
fessionals who participate in the acclaimed ‘‘Tools For 
Tolerance’’ program, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center 
has since opened similar museums and programs in Jeru-
salem and New York; 
Whereas the Simon Wiesenthal Center made major contribu-
tions to the June 2005 Organization for Security and Co-
operation in Europe Conference on Anti-Semitism and on 
Other Forms of Intolerance that produced the Cordoba 
Declaration, which condemned ‘‘without reserve racism, 
xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and other forms of intoler-
ance and discrimination’’ and declared ‘‘that inter-
national developments or political issues, including in 
Israel or elsewhere in the Middle East, never justify anti- 
Semitism’’; 
Whereas, in keeping with the efforts of Simon Wiesenthal, 
many governments have responded to the growing tide of 
anti-Semitism worldwide, elected leaders have spoken out 
against anti-Semitism, and law enforcement officials and 
prosecutors have aggressively pursed the perpetrators of 
anti-Semitic acts; and 
Whereas Simon Wiesenthal’s legacy teaches that the per-
petrators of genocide cannot and will not be allowed to 
hide from their crimes: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That the Congress—
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(1) honors the life and work of Simon 
Wiesenthal to memorialize the victims of the Holo-
caust and to bring the perpetrators of crimes 
against humanity to justice; 
(2) reaffirms its commitment to the fight 
against anti-Semitism and intolerance in all forms, 
in all forums, and in all nations; and 
(3) urges all members of the international com-
munity to facilitate the investigation and prosecution 
of surviving Nazi war criminals and to continue doc-
umenting and collecting information on Nazi war 
crimes for archival and historical purposes. 
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