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Travel of Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues Cherrie Daniels to Poland The Department of State’s Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, Cherrie Daniels, will make her second official visit to Poland July 2-11. Her first visit as Envoy was in January 2020, as part of the U.S. delegation to the Polish government-hosted commemoration marking the 75 th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration and death camp in Oswiecim.  During that first visit, and with her office’s support, the United States Department of State announced an additional 2 million dollars to the...

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REMARKS BUREAU OF EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN AFFAIRS WASHINGTON, DC JANUARY 27, 2021 The United States congratulates the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for signing an historic agreement today with the Jewish Community of Luxembourg, together with the World Jewish Restitution Organization and the Luxembourg Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah. It is poignant that this agreement is being signed today.  This is the beginning of the 80th year since the Nazis first transported Jews from Luxembourg to death camps.  Today is also International Holocaust Remembrance Day, memorializing the liberation of Au...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, The Cinqfontaines Monastery: Soon after Nazi Germany occupied Luxembourg, the Cinqfontaines Monastery was converted into an internment and collection point for Jews being deported from Luxembourg. Men, women and children of all ages were held here in appalling conditions until deported to deat...

U.S. Embassy Congratulates Luxembourg for its Historic Agreement on Outstanding Holocaust Issues The United States Embassy in Luxembourg congratulates the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for signing an historic agreement today with the Jewish Community of Luxembourg, together with the World Jewish Restitution Organization and the Luxembourg Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah. It is only fitting this historic agreement is being signed on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day where Governments and Jewish Communities around the world remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaus...