Rabbi Marvin Hier

Marvin Hier (מרווין היר/האייר/הייר)
Marvin Hier with Gilberto Bosques and Larry Mizel in 2013
Born	1939 New York City, U.S.
Residence	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Rabbi
Children	2 sons

Rabbi Marvin (Moshe Chaim) Hier (מרווין היר/האייר/הייר) (born 1939 in New York City) is the dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, its Museum of Tolerance and of Moriah, the Center's film division.

Hier was born in 1939 in New York City, His parents came from Poland; his father worked as a lamp polisher after arriving in New York in 1917. Hier grew up on the Lower East Side attending the Rabbi Shlomo Kluger Yeshiva on Houston Street for elementary school and the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School for high-school and six years post-high school. Hier received smicha in 1962 from Rabbi Mendel Kravitz, rosh yeshiva of Rabbi Jacob Joseph School.

In the 1960s, Hier served as assistant rabbi and, in 1964, became rabbi of Congregation Schara Tzedeck in Vancouver. In 1977, following a visit to Holocaust sites in Europe, Rabbi Hier came to Los Angeles to create the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Under his leadership, the Center has become one of the foremost Jewish human rights agencies in the world, with a constituency of more than 400,000 families. The Center maintains offices throughout the United States, and in Canada, Europe, Israel and Argentina.

Hier is the recipient of two Academy Awards - in 1997, as co-producer of The Long Way Home, which offers new insights into the critical post World War II period between 1945 and 1948 and the suffering of the tens of thousands of refugees who survived the Holocaust, and in 1981 as co-producer and co-writer for Genocide, a documentary on the Holocaust.