Andrew Baker, leading advocate for tolerance visiting Budapest
For thirty years Rabbi Andrew Baker, a leading advocate for tolerance, has been travelling all over the world implementing programs promoting tolerance and protection of all minority groups. Some of his destinations include such newly emerged democracies like the Czech Republic, Slovakia or Lithuania. He helped the Romanian Government establish a national commission chaired by Elie Wiesel to examine the local history of the Holocaust. He was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his work in German-Jewish relations.
