Speakers at the event included: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV); Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat, former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union and member of the MEMRI Board of Advisors; Dr. Samuel Pisar, UNESCO Honorary Ambassador, Special Envoy for Holocaust Education and Polish-born Holocaust survivor; Prof. Mehnaz Afridi, Pakistan-born Director of Manhattan College's Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center; Katrina Lantos Swett, Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, President of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, and daughter of the late Congressman Lantos; and MEMRI president Yigal Carmon.
