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At this time of rising antisemitism, racism, and
group-targeted violence, a reminder of Wiesel’s commitment to the dignity
of all people is both timely and necessary.
Special Remarks
The Very Rev.
Randolph Marshall Hollerith, Dean, Washington National
Cathedral
Sara J. Bloomfield,
Director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Elisha Wiesel,
The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
Moderator
Jon Meacham,
Canon Historian, Washington National Cathedral
Speakers
Mehnaz Afridi, PhD,
Director, Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center, Manhattan
College
Madeleine K.
Albright, PhD, Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, part of
Dentons Global Advisors, and Professor, Author, Diplomat, and Businesswoman
who served as the 64th US Secretary of State
Rabbi Irving
“Yitz” Greenberg, PhD, Former Chairman, United States
Holocaust Memorial Council, President Emeritus, Clal: The National Jewish
Center for Learning and Leadership, and Jewish Theologian and Activist
Wai Wai Nu,
Witness to the Rohingya genocide in Burma, Founder and Executive Director,
Women's Peace Network
Rabbi David
Saperstein, Former US Ambassador-at-Large for International
Religious Freedom
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Photo: A carved stone bust of Holocaust survivor, author, and
human rights champion Elie Wiesel joins likenesses of Rosa Parks and
Eleanor Roosevelt, among others, on the Washington National Cathedral’s
Human Rights Porch. Danielle
Thomas/Washington National Cathedral
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