Avi benlolo simon wiesenthal biography
Simon wiesenthal center!
Mr.Avi benlolo simon wiesenthal biography
Avi Benlolo (President and Chief Executive Officer, Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies) at the Public Safety and National Security Committee
Thank you.
I'll be speaking for about eight minutes and then we can do some Q and A, if you'd like.
Good evening, everyone, and thank you for providing me with this opportunity to speak here today.
My name is Avi Benlolo, and I'm the president and CEO of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies.
It's an organization that was created to advance humanity in the name of Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor who lost some 80 members of his own family. Wiesenthal dedicated the rest of his life not to vengeance but to bringing war criminals to justice and to educating against anti-Semitism, hate, and intolerance.
Indeed, social advocacy and education is the mandate of my organization.
In a special session on anti-Semitism in the House of Commons on February 23, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Cente