United Kingdom Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues

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The United Kingdom Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues is responsible for developing and implementing UK Government policy with respect to encouraging the restitution of Holocaust-era assets, including art and immovable property; ensuring the accessibility and preservation of the Bad Arolsen archival record of the Nazi era and its aftermath, and promoting Holocaust education, remembrance and research. [1]

Robert Andrew Burns served as the first envoy from 2010 to 2015. He was succeeded by Eric Pickles, who was appointed in 2015. [2]

List of special envoys

Special EnvoysTerm of officeLength of TermPrime Minister
Andrew Burns 2012 (cropped).jpg Sir Robert Andrew Burns 10 June 201010 September 20155 years, 3 months David Cameron
Official Portrait of Lord Pickles, 2024.jpg Eric Pickles
Baron Pickles
10 September 2015Incumbent9 years, 2 months
Theresa May
Boris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Keir Starmer

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References

  1. "United Kingdom Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues - a Freedom of Information request to Foreign and Commonwealth Office". WhatDoTheyKnow. 15 June 2010.
  2. "The Rt Hon Lord Pickles". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2 April 2021.