Posted on Jan 27, 2023
Second gentleman Emhoff visits Auschwitz, part of a push against antisemitism
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This International Holocaust Remembrance Day, government officials from various countries gathered at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to remember victims and honor survivors.
Among them, for the first time, was the first Jewish spouse of a U.S. president or vice president.
This International Holocaust Remembrance Day, government officials from various countries gathered at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to remember victims and honor survivors.
Among them, for the first time, was the first Jewish spouse of a U.S. president or vice president.
Second gentleman Emhoff visits Auschwitz, part of a push against antisemitism
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..."On the itinerary: meetings and memorials
On Friday night, Emhoff will attend a Shabbat dinner back in Krakow with members of the Jewish community.
Saturday's planned events include a visit to Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory Museum (Schindler famously saved more than 1,200 Polish Jews by employing them in his plant during World War II) , an antisemitism roundtable and a meeting with Ukrainian refugees.
On Sunday, Emhoff will tour Krakow's Jewish Quarter and visit historic sites in the southern town of Gorlice before heading to Berlin.
On Monday, he will participate in a meeting with other antisemitism envoys at the Topography of Terror Museum, and tour both that museum as well as the Museum of Jewish Life. Later, he will meet with German community leaders and government officials at a dinner hosted by the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Amy Gutmann (whose late father escaped Nazi Germany).
Emhoff will wrap up his trip on Tuesday with a roundtable with Jewish, Muslim and Christian faith leaders, then meet with Ukrainian refugees at Oranienburgerstrasse Synagogue as well as visit memorials dedicated to victims of Nazi persecution and meet with Holocaust survivors."
..."On the itinerary: meetings and memorials
On Friday night, Emhoff will attend a Shabbat dinner back in Krakow with members of the Jewish community.
Saturday's planned events include a visit to Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory Museum (Schindler famously saved more than 1,200 Polish Jews by employing them in his plant during World War II) , an antisemitism roundtable and a meeting with Ukrainian refugees.
On Sunday, Emhoff will tour Krakow's Jewish Quarter and visit historic sites in the southern town of Gorlice before heading to Berlin.
On Monday, he will participate in a meeting with other antisemitism envoys at the Topography of Terror Museum, and tour both that museum as well as the Museum of Jewish Life. Later, he will meet with German community leaders and government officials at a dinner hosted by the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Amy Gutmann (whose late father escaped Nazi Germany).
Emhoff will wrap up his trip on Tuesday with a roundtable with Jewish, Muslim and Christian faith leaders, then meet with Ukrainian refugees at Oranienburgerstrasse Synagogue as well as visit memorials dedicated to victims of Nazi persecution and meet with Holocaust survivors."
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