New York, NY. September 17, 2024 ... The ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) Task Force on Middle East Minorities applauds the introduction and urges the swift passage of House Resolution 554 affirming the nature and importance of the support of the United States for the religious and ethnic minority survivors of genocide in Iraq. The resolution reaffirms the unwavering support of the U.S. government for the survivors of genocide among Iraq’s religious and ethnic minority…
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New York, NY, September 8, 2022 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today issued the following statement on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II:
We join with millions of people around the world in mourning the loss of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning monarch in Britain and an inspiring and beloved figure who exemplified respect for all people and cultures. Queen Elizabeth was at the center of many of the most important moments of modern history, from driving a military truck in…
New York, NY, October 15, 2013 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed shock and outrage at the announcement that a fringe Catholic organization decided to hold the funeral of notorious Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke at its church near Rome. The Society of St. Pius X, a Catholic order whose representatives have charged contemporary Jews with deicide, and whose bishop, Richard Williamson, has made statements denying the Holocaust, announced that it would hold a funeral for…
New York, NY, February 14, 2012 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) posthumously honored Colonel José Arturo Castellanos Contreras, a Salvadoran diplomat who during the Holocaust saved tens of thousands of European Jews by issuing documents identifying them as citizens of El Salvador. The ADL Jan Karski Courage to Care Award, established in 1987 to honor rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust era, was presented February 10 to Colonel Castellanos' daughter, Frieda…
Washington, DC, May 2, 2010 … Jaap Penraat, a Dutch resistance fighter who saved more than 400 Jews during the Holocaust by forging fake documents and guiding them to safety, was honored posthumously by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for his heroism in risking his life to save others. "Jaap Penraat was a person of moral courage and conscience," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor who was saved by his Polish Catholic nanny, in presenting the award. …
New York, NY, February 24, 2010 … Arlette deMonceau Michaelis, who along with her family resisted the Germans and saved Jews in Belgium during the Holocaust, was honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for her heroism in risking her life to save others. Arlette received ADL's Courage to Care Award, which honors rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust era, during a ceremony at the League's National Executive Committee meeting in Palm Beach, Florida. "Arlette…
New York, NY, November 7, 2011 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) posthumously honored Count János Esterházy, a Hungarian aristocrat and member of the Slovak Parliament, for his efforts to save Jews during the Holocaust by helping Polish refugees, many of whom were Jews, and Slovak Jews flee to Hungary. The ADL Jan Karski Courage to Care Award, established in 1987 to honor rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust era, was presented to Esterházy's…
New York, NY, October 24, 2011 … The Anti-Defamation League's Courage to Care Award, which was established in 1987 to honor rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust, is being renamed in honor of Jan Karski, the Polish diplomat and righteous gentile who provided one of the first eyewitness accounts of Hitler's Final Solution to the West. A longtime professor at Georgetown University, who died in 2000 at the age of 86, Jan Karski was among the first recipients of the ADL Courage…
New York, NY, February 4, 2009 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed as a "major positive step forward" the Vatican's demand that Bishop Richard Williamson publicly and unequivocally recant his Holocaust denial if he is ever to regain his clerical responsibilities in the Church. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement: We sincerely appreciate that Pope Benedict XVI heard our pain and anguish over the acceptance back into…