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…
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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…
Share and discuss with middle and high school students war-time experiences of three child survivors and how the Holocaust affected them.
Learn about International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a date that marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and is meant to honor the victims of Nazism.