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Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles. The center is headed by Jim Berk as CEO since January 2024, Rabbi Abraham Cooper the associate dean and Director of Global Social Action Agenda and Rabbi Meyer May, the executive director. Marvin Hier's wife, Marlene Hier, is the Director of Membership development.
The original museum in Los Angeles, California, opened in 1993. It was built at a cost of $50 million by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, named after its founder Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter. The museum receives 350,000 visitors annually, about a third of which are school-age children.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles was founded in 1977 by Rabbi Marvin Hier, who paid Wiesenthal an honorarium for the right to use his name. The centre helped with the campaign to remove the statute of limitations on Nazi crimes and continues the hunt for suspected Nazi war criminals, but today its primary activities include Holocaust ...
1950 (age 73–74) New York City, U.S. Occupation. Rabbi. Abraham Cooper (born 1950) is an American rabbi. He is the associate dean and director of Global Social Action Agenda for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization. [1] He is currently the chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom .
A $100 million Museum of Tolerance and Human Dignity, a project of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles run by Marvin Hier, is set to be built in Jerusalem, Israel. In 2013, The Forward called Hier the "most overpaid" executive of a Jewish non-profit. Hier's family received nearly $1.3 million in 2012 from the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Yeshiva University of Los Angeles purchased a $2.25-million facility for high school classes, located on Robertson Boulevard, in late May 1990. Hier had outbid Sephardic Jewish and Sikh organizations for the site. Prior to the purchase, Hier had asked for $5 million in additional federal funding for the Wiesenthal Center.
Efraim Zuroff ( Hebrew: אפרים זורוף; born August 5, 1948) is an American-born Israeli historian and Nazi hunter who has played a key role in bringing Nazi and fascist war criminals to trial. Zuroff, the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center office in Jerusalem, is the coordinator of Nazi war crimes research worldwide for the ...
Simon Wiesenthal. Jewish-American political organizations. Jewish educational organizations. The Holocaust and the United States. Jewish organizations based in the United States. Organizations based in Los Angeles. Opposition to antisemitism in the United States. Anti-fascist organizations in the United States. Anti-fascism in the United States.