Second gentleman Doug Emhoff is planning to travel to Germany and Poland this month with Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt.
Emhoff and Harris at a Rosh Hashanah reception at the White House in September. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Imagesis planning to travel to Germany and Poland this month with Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, Biden’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, according to people familiar with the matter.
It's also a sign of how seriously the Biden administration is taking the rise in antisemitism and that it perceives it as a global problem. Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a president or vice president, has made combating antisemitism a signature issue — calling out an "epidemic of hate" last month at a White House roundtable focused on domestic incidents.Emhoff and Lipstadt are expected to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial in Poland around International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27.
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