Simon Wiesenthal was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor who dedicated his life to tracking down fugitive Nazi war criminals. After surviving five concentration camps, he realized that many perpetrators of the Holocaust were escaping justice and blending back into society. He founded the Jewish Documentation Center in Linz, Austria, to gather evidence for future trials. Wiesenthal played a significant role in locating Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the 'Final Solution,' who was captured in Argentina in 1960. He also helped track down Franz Stangl, the commandant of Treblinka. For Wiesenthal, the goal was not vengeance, but 'justice, not revenge.' He wanted the world to remember the victims and ensure such atrocities never happened again. His work served as a moral conscience for a postwar world that was often eager to forget the crimes of the Third Reich.