“We share a commitment to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to honour those who stood against it.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
German Chancellor to receive USHMM Elie Wiesel Award
24.03.2017
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will bestow its highest honor, the Elie Wiesel Award, on German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her work advancing Holocaust awareness.
“Chancellor Merkel has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to making the preservation of Holocaust memory a priority for Germany,” said Tom Bernstein, who chairs the council governing the museum, in a release Thursday. “The Museum has partnered with the German government and institutions on many initiatives, and those partnerships have only grown deeper and more fruitful under Chancellor Merkel.”
Angela Merkel will receive the award on April 24 during the museum’s National Tribute Dinner, which takes place on Yom Hashoah in Washington, D.C. Merkel will accept the honor by video from Germany.
The honor was named for Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust memoirist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who helped found the museum.
Credit: Armin Linnartz. This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons-Lizenz (3.0 Germany).