UK Government Appoints First United Kingdom Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues
The British Foreign Secretary announced on Wednesday 9 June 2010 the appointment of Sir Andrew Burns to the new post of United Kingdom Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues.
Sir Andrew, a former UK Ambassador, is responsible for creating a strategic approach to the
UK government’s efforts on a number of post-Holocaust issues. The Envoy’s remit includes art and real estate restitution, the implementation of the Terezin Declaration, ensuring the accessibility and preservation of the International Tracing Service archive at Bad Arolsen, and Holocaust education, remembrance and research. The Envoy is responsible for developing and implementing
UK government policy in these fields, assisted and guided by expert stakeholders, and will report to the
UK’s Foreign Secretary.
In creating the post, the UK government was guided by and worked closely with the
Commission for Looted Art in Europe (CLAE) and the
Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR).
To read the Government press release, click
here. To read the joint CLAE and AJR press release, click
here.
To read the Foreign Secretary's Written Ministerial Statement to Parliament, click
here.