AJC CEO David Harris issued the following statement, after Russian officials just claimed that the wartime rescue of nearly 50,000 Bulgarian Jews was the result of Soviet, not Bulgarian, efforts.
Over the past two weeks, the memory of Anne Frank, a global symbol of Jewish perseverance in the face of hate, was twice evoked in an unsettling fashion—first in Rome, then in Berlin.
AJC is appalled by a Russian Orthodox Church bishop’s assertion in Moscow that Jews were responsible for the deaths of Czar Nicholas II and his family in 1918, a year after the Bolshevik Revolution.