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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 6887, member: 44"]Like you said, I bet it could stand for the Anti-Defamation League because Marc Chagall was given a visa to escape France by a member of the U.S. diplomatic service back when. Chagall was able to escape the Holocaust. That diplomatic (Hiriam Bingham) was honored posthumously by the ADL in 2006 for "defied orders and granted more than 2500 American visas to Jews and other refugees during the Holocaust, was honored posthumously by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) with its <i>Courage to Care Award</i>, which recognizes rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust."</p><p><br /></p><p>"Hiram Bingham was a member of the U.S. diplomatic service and was posted to Marseilles, France as American Vice-Consul in 1939. In defiance of explicit directives, Bingham granted over 2,500 American visas to Jews and other refugees, including Marc Chagall and Max Ernst, as well as the family of writer Thomas Mann."</p><p><a href="http://archive.adl.org/presrele/holna_52/4920_52.html#.U7bA27GGeSo" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://archive.adl.org/presrele/holna_52/4920_52.html#.U7bA27GGeSo" rel="nofollow">http://archive.adl.org/presrele/holna_52/4920_52.html#.U7bA27GGeSo</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 6887, member: 44"]Like you said, I bet it could stand for the Anti-Defamation League because Marc Chagall was given a visa to escape France by a member of the U.S. diplomatic service back when. Chagall was able to escape the Holocaust. That diplomatic (Hiriam Bingham) was honored posthumously by the ADL in 2006 for "defied orders and granted more than 2500 American visas to Jews and other refugees during the Holocaust, was honored posthumously by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) with its [I]Courage to Care Award[/I], which recognizes rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust." "Hiram Bingham was a member of the U.S. diplomatic service and was posted to Marseilles, France as American Vice-Consul in 1939. In defiance of explicit directives, Bingham granted over 2,500 American visas to Jews and other refugees, including Marc Chagall and Max Ernst, as well as the family of writer Thomas Mann." [url]http://archive.adl.org/presrele/holna_52/4920_52.html#.U7bA27GGeSo[/url] --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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