November 13, 2014
Thank you, all. Thank you, Foreign Minister Steinmeier, President Burkhalter, for convening this critically important conference. It could not be more timely. Thank you, Director Link, for all of your human rights work across a range of issues, including anti-Semitism.
We are gathered in Berlin -- a great, great city -- that marked two anniversaries this week. The first – November 9th, 1938 – was Kristallnacht, “the night of the broken glass,” which unleashed savage violence and destruction against Jewish homes, synagogues, schools, and businesses by Nazis in Germany and Austria.