Simon Wiesenthal was buried in Israel. Dignitaries from the United States, Israel and Austria joined hundreds of mourners in laying the legendary Nazi hunter to rest in Herzliya last Friday. Wiesenthal, 96, died Sept. 20 in his sleep at his home in Vienna.
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