making history

In a first, an official Holocaust Remembrance Day event in Egypt

The event was the first of two in the region — the other will be held in Abu Dhabi — hosted by the U.S. Embassy and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Tad Stahnke, international outreach director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Egyptian officials, American scholars and foreign diplomats gathered on Monday at a luxury hotel on the banks of the Nile to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the first time such an event has ever been held in Egypt. 

The...