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Black Tie
International:
Raoul Wallenberg
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Erol User on the steps of the US Capitol |
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White House Director of Jewish Outreach
Jarrod Bernstein |
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House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy |
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Ezra Friedlander, Erol User, Efraim Lebovits |
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Washington DC--Momentum is building very rapidly in support
of the legislation introduced by Representatives Nan
Hayworth and Gregory Meeks for the Congressional Gold Medal
for legendary Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg. The bill that
they recently introduced in the United States House of
Representatives has already garnered close to two hundred
co-sponsors in recognition of the upcoming centennial of
Wallenberg's birth--a campaign that is being spearheaded by
the Raoul Wallenberg Centennial Celebration Commission.
According to Ezra Friedlander, CEO of The Friedlander Group
and spokesman for the Commission the goal is to have the
"requisite two thirds of the Congress sponsor the
legislation which will lead to the legislation voted on
unanimously and presented in 2012, which is being referred
to as the Year of Wallenberg in everlasting tribute to a
great humanitarian whose unparalleled heroism resulted in
his rescue of over 100,000 Jews in the waning days of World
War 2".
The Wallenberg Commission recently concluded high level
meetings in Washington DC. The delegation met with several
US Senators: Frank Lautenberg, Michael Bennet, Bob Corker,
Richard Blumenthal, Rober Casey, Mike Johanns. The
delegation was also received by the Republican (Majority)
leadership of the House of Representatives including
Majority leader Eric Cantor, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy
and Congressman Bob Turner. The group also met with White
House Director of Jewish Outreach Jarrod Bernstein. The
Senators and Representatives were all unified in their
support of the campaign to award Raoul Wallenberg with a
Congressional Gold Medal, which is one of the two highest US
Government medals. The participants at these high level
meetings included: Erol User Investment Banker from
Istanbul, Turkey and Patricia Tiffany who represented
Flushing Bank, an official corporate sponsor of the
educational activities of the Wallenberg Commission
and Peter Rebenwurzel whose late father provided canned
goods and meat to the Jews in the Budapest Ghetto;
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