On 18 September 2017 at The Luxemburg House, New York, the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation presented the Raoul Wallenberg Medal to the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel, in recognition of his efforts to eradicate any form of racism and discrimination, his firm stance in favour of human rights and as representative of his fellow-countrymen, like the late Minister of Justice, Victor Bodson (1902-1984), who did not stand idly-by during the Holocaust, reaching-out to the victims of the Nazi persecution.
In the name of the educational NGO, its president, Eduardo Eurnekian, stated: Another demonstration of Prime Minister Bettel’s commitment to the cause of the Holocaust was a statement of June 6, 2015, which said: Government apologizes to the Jewish community … for the suffering it inflicts … and the injustices that are committed against it … and recognizes the responsibility of some public officials in the unforgivable acts committed.