JERUSALEM, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- The late Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor who died in 2005, frequently worked for Israel's Mossad spy agency, a new biography says. Wiesenthal was widely ...

JERUSALEM Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor who gained worldwide fame for decades as a one-man Nazi-hunting operation, was in fact frequently on the payroll of the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, a ...

Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor and tracker of Nazi war criminals whose life inspired films and TV programs, died in his sleep Tuesday at his home in Vienna. He was 96. Known as “the ...

Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal, who became famous for spending years tracking down Nazi war criminals in order to bring them to justice, was actually working for Israel's spy agency Mossad, ...

Tom Segev, trans. from the Hebrew by Ronnie Hope, Doubleday, $32.50 (448p) ISBN 978-0-385-51946-5 Bringing war criminals to justice makes for endless controversy, according to this thoughtful, knotty ...

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has awarded an honorary knighthood to Simon Wiesenthal, the legendary Nazi-hunter who tracked down more than 1,000 war criminals, including Adolf Eichmann. “An honorary ...

Simon Wiesenthal, the legendary Nazi hunter, was in many ways a smaller-than-life character. Balding, mustached, the wearer of frumpy suits and neckties, possessed of an old-world Yiddish accent and a ...

Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal, who became famous for spending years tracking down Nazi war criminals in order to bring them to justice, was actually working for Israel's spy agency Mossad, ...

As Tom Segev’s biography makes clear, in the entire pantheon of Jewish superheroes there is no more unlikely figure than Simon Wiesenthal. In the whole pantheon of Jewish super-heroes, from Samson ...