NEW YORK, N.Y. – Hillary Clinton joined the family and friends of
Edgar Bronfman on Tuesday to remember a Jewish leader whose vast whiskey
fortune was eclipsed by a globally-connected personal force that helped
Holocaust survivors win back what the Nazis stole.
“He exuded a confidence and honesty that won him the friendship and
support of presidents and popes and people everywhere,” the former U.S.
secretary of state and first lady told a memorial gathering in
Manhattan.
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Clinton said she arranged a 1996 meeting — on just a day’s notice
from Bronfman — between him and then U.S. President Bill Clinton. The
encounter led to years of negotiations over Holocaust assets between
Swiss banks, the World Jewish Congress and the U.S. government.
During the 1980s and 1990s, the congress helped lead the effort to
gain $11 billion in restitution for heirs of Holocaust victims. Bronfman
was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
