The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum last night conferred their highest honor, the Elie Wiesel Award, on the U.S. Department of Justice in recognition of the successes of its longtime enforcement program’s efforts to identify, investigate, and prosecute participants in World War II-era Nazi crimes.
Antony Blinken in Holocaust Day speech recalls past State Department obstruction of bids to save Jews
April 23, 2021
WASHINGTON (JTA) Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations are by their nature calls for accountability for atrocities past and present.
Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, used the occasion to take his own department to task for its neglect of Jews during the Nazi era, and to call for action on behalf of the persecuted today.
Blinken, delivering the keynote address Thursday at the event organized by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, savaged the World War II-era assistant secretary of state, Breckinridge Long, for blocking the entry into the United States of Jews fleeing Nazi.
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Global population of Jews still not recovered from the Holocaust, demographic study finds The Holocaust of the Jews is still visible, said Sergio DellaPergola, author of the World Jewish Population 2020 report
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Publishing date: Apr 21, 2021 • 43 minutes ago • 4 minute read Some of the 2,711 polished marble blocks, or stellae , at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also called the Holocaust Memorial, in Berlin, Germany. Photo by Carsten Koall /Getty Images
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The population of Jews in the world has yet to recover the size it had on the eve of World War Two, more than 80 years ago.
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