1977 CE: SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER OPENED

–by dynamo Rabbi Marvin Hier

–for tolerance and the combating of anti–Semitism, founded in L.A.

Its sub–component “Museum of Tolerance” will open 14 years later, in 1993.

Two of the six films of its Moriah Films division have won Academy Awards for Best Feature Documentary: Genocide (1981) and The Long Way Home (1997).