Honorary Chairman of International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Bauer, decorated by Iohannis

President Klaus Iohannis on Tuesday signed a decree decorating Honorary Chairman of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Yehuda Bauer, the Presidential Administration reports. 

Iohannis bestowed on Bauer a For Merit National Order in rank of Grand Officer "in recognition of the high esteem for the significant personal contribution to the research of the Holocaust for the purpose of keeping alive the memory of this tragedy that the mankind should never witness, as well as for fruitful and prodigious cooperation with Romania." 

The decoration was made at the proposal of Romania's Foreign Minister Lazar Comanescu. 

Romania is scheduled this March to take over the chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. AGERPRES