A graduate of the Czech Technical University in Prague, Simon Wiesenthal was an architect in the city of Lvov in the Ukraine when World War II broke out; due to the non-aggression treaty with Nazi Germany, the Russians forced Wiesenthal, as with other Jews, from his livelihood; he was working as a mechanic in a bedspring factory when he was imprisoned in a labor camp working on a railroad for the duration of the war. He had smuggled his wife, a blonde who could pass for Polish, to safety thr ...[Read Story]
