List of awards received by Simon Wiesenthal

Simon Wiesenthal, KBE (December 31, 1908 – September 20, 2005) was an Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter. He was presented with many awards, merits, and honorary doctorates over the course of his life.

State awards[]

	Decoration for Services to the Liberation of Austria	1979
	Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau	Netherlands
	Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic	given by the Italian President Pertini, 20 July 1979^[1]
	Congressional Gold Medal	United States of America; March 17, 1980
	Commander of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg	1981
	Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany	from the President of the German Federal Republic, 1985
	Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur	France, 1986
	Cross of Honour for Science and Art	Austria, 1993
	Commander's Cross of the Polonia Restituta	Poland, 1994
	Commander of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg	1995
	Title “Professor”	awarded by Austrian Federal President, Thomas Klestil, 1997
	Silver Decoration of the Bosnian Coat of Arms	1998
	Order of the White Lion	Czech Republic, presented by President Václav Havel, 1999
	Great Cross of the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins	Chile, 1999
	Presidential Medal of Freedom	United States of America, 9 August 2000
	Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire	19 February 2004 In recognition of a "lifetime of service to humanity" and for his work at the Simon Wiesenthal Center
	Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria	9 June 2005^[2]

Local government honors[]

Diploma of Honor of the City of Los Angeles, 1978

Diploma of Honor of the State of California

Honorary Citizen of Dallas, Texas, 1979

Honorary Citizen of Louisville, Kentucky, USA, 1979

Jerusalem Medal, presented by the Town Council of Jerusalem, 1980

Proclamation of the City of New York - Day of Solidarity with Simon Wiesenthal, March 31, 1981

Honorary Citizen of Miami Beach, Florida, USA, 1983

Honorary Citizen of Memphis, Tennessee, USA, 1984

Honorary Citizen of Shelby County, Tennessee, USA, 1984

The Assembly, Senate and Governor Mario M.Cuomo of the State of New York declare June 13, 1984 as "Simon Wiesenthal Day"

Grand Silver Medal of Honor for Merit; Federal State of Vienna, presented by Mayor Helmut Zilk, 1985

in 1985

Medal of the City of Paris, 1992

Ring of Honor of the City of Linz, Austria, 1995

Honorary Citizen of the City of Vienna, 1995

Organisations[]

Diploma of Honor of the Internationale de Résistance, Brussels, 1973

Dutch Medal for Freedom

Medal for Freedom of Luxemburg, 1973

Needle of Honor of the Austrian Resistance Movement

Diploma of Honor of the League of the United Nations

Annual Award of Merit of the , Chicago, Illinois, 1978

Diploma of Honor of the in USA

Honorary Member of the French

, Medal of the French Resistance

, Denmark

Honorary Member of the Dutch Resistance

Honorary Member of the Danish Association of Freedom Fighters

Henrietta Szold Award, of the World WIZO Organization in the USA, 1979

14th Annual Susie Humanitarian Award of the , Los Angeles, 1980

Justice Louis Brandeis Award of the Zionist Organization in the USA, 1980

Medal of Honor of the , Jerusalem

Member of the International Council of Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 1980

David Award, Prize of Swiss Jewry for outstanding achievements, Jerusalem, 1981

Gold Medal of the Union of Jewish Congregations in Austria, 1982

Jabotinsky-Award of Anti-Defamation-League (ADL), 1988

, Middelburg, Netherlands, 1990

Honorary President of the Austrian League for Human Rights, 1991

Otto Hahn Peace Medal in Gold; German Society of the United Nations, Berlin, 1991

, New York, United States, 1991

UNESCO Medal of Honor, presented by UNESCO Director-General, Federico Mayor, Paris, 1992

Erasmus Prize; for an important contribution to European culture and society, presented by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, 1992

Award of - The Movement to Commemorate the Implications of the Holocaust in Israel, 1993

Award of the Austrian Booksellers Association for Tolerance in Spirit and in Action, 1995

Dedication of the Simon Wiesenthal House of AMCHA (National Israeli Center for Psychosocial Support of Survivors of the Holocaust and the Second Generation), Tel Aviv, 1997

European Prize Pro Humanitate for Peace, Justice, and Tolerance, awarded by the , 1998

Decorations from French resistance groups

Decorations from Austrian resistance groups

Israel Liberata Gold Medal

; presented by Michael Gorbatschov on “Men’s World Day” in Vienna, 3 November 2000

Lo Tishkach Award, presented at the Conference of European Rabbis, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 2000

Medal of Honor of the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP), The Hague, Netherlands, presented at the Documentation Center in Vienna, 17 April 2002

Postage stamp issued in his honour by Austria and Israel Post in 2010 World Stamp News

Academic institutions[]

Wiesenthal was awarded 18 honorary doctorates from universities around the world, including seven faculties of law.

Honorary member of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, 1989
Honorary Member of the Academy of Science, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1994
Human Rights Award of the Karl Franzens University, Graz, Austria, 1994
Honorary Doctorate from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków; 1994^[3]
Honorary doctorate from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel

References[]

^ "ONORIFICENZE; parametri di ricerca" (in Italian). Italian Presidency. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
^ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (pdf) (in German). p. 1705. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
^ It is often claimed that Wiesenthal was the first Jew to receive an honorary degree from the Jagiellonian University; this is not in fact the case. See: Adam Zagajewski (8 March 2012). "Jews Honored in Kraków". The New York Review of Books. 59 (4). Retrieved 18 February 2012.

[1] "ONORIFICENZE; parametri di ricerca" (in Italian). Italian Presidency. Retrieved 21 November 2012.

[2] "Reply to a parliamentary question" (pdf) (in German). p. 1705. Retrieved 21 November 2012.

[3] It is often claimed that Wiesenthal was the first Jew to receive an honorary degree from the Jagiellonian University; this is not in fact the case. See: Adam Zagajewski (8 March 2012). "Jews Honored in Kraków". The New York Review of Books. 59 (4). Retrieved 18 February 2012.

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