. Calls for Swift Confirmation of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Washington, DC – On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom ( USCIRF ) pays tribute to the memory of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, as well as millions of Roma and Sinti, Slavs, disabled persons, LGBTQ, and others who were victimized by the Nazi party. Today marks the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of many notorious Nazi concentration and extermination camps. “It is essential that we all remember the victims of the Shoah. To evoke their...