Officials at the University of Vienna announced Monday they plan to build a new &to=http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/04/10/27496.html' target=_blank>Holocaust research center in honor of the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.
The Ђ14.5 million (US$17.1 million) center, to be called the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, is targeted to be completed by 2009 or 2010, project leader Anton Pelinka said during an evening presentation.
"The institute will give a worthy framework to the archives and legacy of Simon Wiesenthal," Pelinka told reporters. He said Wiesenthal, who died last September at age 96, had wanted the records he amassed over decades of sleuthing around the world to be preserved in the Austrian capital.
Officials said the 3,000-square-meter (32,300-square-foot) center will house some 8,000 documents, including files from the country's World War II resistance movement, &to=http://english.pravda.ru/world/2001/01/23/2108.html' target=_blank>Austria's Jewish community and hundreds of thousands of microfilmed documents from the Jerusalem-based Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People.
"This will put Austria on the map of international Holocaust research" and efforts to stamp out racism and anti-Semitism, Pelinka said.
Wiesenthal, who survived five Nazi concentration camps and seven other prisons, devoted his life to tracking down suspected Nazi war criminals and became a voice for the 6 million Jews who perished as victims of Hitler's "Final Solution." He died in Vienna on Sept. 20 and was buried in Israel, reports AP.
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