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 crop 2, 2025.jpg Eric Pickles
Baron Pickles
10 September 2015Incumbent9 years, 10 months
Theresa May
Boris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Keir Starmer

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.