I 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 537 
To award a Congressional Gold Medal to 60 diplomats, in recognition of 
their bravery and heroism during the Holocaust. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 26, 2023 
Ms. SALAZAR (for herself, Mr. TORRES of New York, Ms. TENNEY, Mrs. 
BICE, Mr. PAPPAS, Mr. GIMENEZ, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Ms. WILSON of 
Florida, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. PHILLIPS, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. 
KUSTOFF, and Mr. SCHNEIDER) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To award a Congressional Gold Medal to 60 diplomats, in 
recognition of their bravery and heroism during the Hol-
ocaust. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Forgotten Heroes of 
the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) The following diplomats will be honored 
posthumously: Per Anger (Sweden), Jose Maria 
Barreto (Peru), Lars Berg (Sweden), Philippe 
Bernardini (Vatican / Italy), Hiram (Harry) Bing-
ham IV (United States), Friedrich Born (Switzer-
land), Manuel Antonio Mun˜oz Borrero (Ecuador), 
Carlos 
de 
Liz-Texeira 
Branquinho 
(Portugal), 
Eduardo Propper de Callejo´n (Spain), Samuel del 
Campo 
(Chile), 
Aracy 
Moebius 
Carvalho 
de 
Guimara˜es Rosa (Brazil), Jose´ Arturo Castellanos 
(El Salvador), Carl Ivan Danielsson (Sweden), Luis 
Martins de Souza Dantas (Brazil), Georg Ferdinand 
Duckwitz (Germany), Harald Feller (Switzerland), 
Francis (Frank) Foley (United Kingdom), Jean- 
Edouard Friedrich (Switzerland), Carlos Almeida 
Afonseca de Sampaio Garrido (Portugal), Raymond 
Herman Geist (United States), Feng-Shan Ho 
(China), Constantin Karadja (Romania), Alexander 
Kasser (Sa´ndor Kasza) (Sweden / Hungary), Elow 
Kihlgren (Sweden), Joseph Willem (Joop) Kolkman 
(Netherlands), 
Julius 
Ku¨hl 
(Switzerland), 
Aleksander 4ados´ (Poland), Valdemar Langlet (Swe-
den), Charles (Carl) Lutz (Switzerland), George 
Mandel-Mantello (El Salvador), Florian Manoliu 
(Romania), Aristides de Sousa Mendes (Portugal), 
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Salomon Jacob (Sally) Noach (Netherlands), Giorgio 
(Jorge) Perlasca (Spain / Italy), Ernst Prodolliet 
(Switzerland), Franjo Puncˇuch (Yugoslavia / Slo-
venia), Sebastia´n de Romero Radigales (Spain), 
Konstanty 
Rokicki 
(Poland), 
Angelo 
Giuseppe 
Roncalli (Vatican / Italy), Angelo Rotta (Vatican / 
Italy), Albert Emile Routier (Turkey), Stefan 
Ryniewicz (Poland), Gilberto Bosques Saldı´var 
(Mexico), Jose´ Ruiz Santaella (Spain), A´ngel Sanz- 
Briz (Spain), Abdol-Hossein Sardari (Iran), Henryk 
Slawik (Poland), Robert Smallbones (United King-
dom), Ja´n Spisˇiak (Slovakia), Chiune (Sempo) 
Sugihara (Japan), Ireanaeus Typaldos (Spain), 
Alexander (Sa´ndor) U´jva´ry (Vatican / Hungary), 
Selahattin U¨lku¨men (Turkey), Gennaro Verolino 
(Vatican / Italy), Vladimı´r Vochocˇ (Czech Republic), 
Ernst Vonrufs (Switzerland), Raoul Wallenberg 
(Sweden), Guelfo Zamboni (Italy), Peter Zu¨rcher 
(Switzerland), and Jan Zwartendijk (Holland). 
(2) On September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler and 
the Nazis began their invasion of Europe, which 
started World War II and threw the world into 
chaos. The Nazi plan of mass murder of the Jewish 
population was in full motion. As battles were being 
fought between countries, Jews were being rounded 
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up and sent to concentration camps throughout Eu-
rope. This process began a mass exodus of people 
out of Europe, especially those in the Jewish com-
munity. 
(3) During the war, members of the Jewish 
community used every tool and means at their dis-
posal to flee Nazi tyranny. Thousands tried to flee 
on trains or boats to escape from Europe. 
(4) While the armies of countries were fighting 
each other, a handful of diplomats, from around the 
world, stepped forward and took heroic actions to 
save Jews fleeing Europe. This was an incredibly 
dangerous process. If the Nazis discovered the ac-
tions of these diplomats they would be expelled, as 
a few of them were. Also, while worrying about the 
Nazis, diplomats had to worry about their careers 
and livelihoods back home. Many of them had strict 
orders from their home countries to not aid the Jew-
ish population in any way. 
(5) These diplomats used every means at their 
disposal to help Jews fleeing persecution. One of the 
most powerful tools the diplomats had to use was 
the issuing of passports and travel visas contrary to 
the instruction of the governments of the diplomats. 
This process alone is responsible for saving hundreds 
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of thousands of Jewish families in Europe. This was 
not the only tool used as many of the diplomats were 
connected with the local populations and were great 
communicators for Jews trying to travel under-
ground. They were able set up safehouses and 
getaways to hide Jews and especially Jewish children 
from Nazi authorities. In the most dangerous of 
times, several of these diplomats confronted the 
Nazis directly on behalf of the Jews and personally 
put themselves in grave danger. 
(6) Every diplomat knew the dangers and knew 
what they were up against, and still pushed forward 
to save those in the most danger. 
(7) The Congressional Gold Medal authorized 
under this Act will help remind humanity that when 
the diplomats were faced with terrible crises, they 
went beyond the fold, including risking their careers 
and the lives of themselves and their families, to en-
gage in this humanitarian mission. The diplomats of 
today and future generations can look towards these 
heroes and be inspired by their lives of heroism and 
sacrifice. 
SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. 
(a) PRESENTATION AUTHORIZED.—The Speaker of 
the House of Representatives and the President pro tem-
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pore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements 
for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a single 
gold medal of appropriate design in honor of the 60 dip-
lomats identified in section 2(1), in recognition of their 
brave and vital service of saving Jews during World War 
II. 
(b) DESIGN AND STRIKING.—For purposes of the 
presentation referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary 
of the Treasury (referred to in this Act as the ‘‘Sec-
retary’’) shall strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, 
devices, and inscriptions, to be determined by the Sec-
retary. 
(c) PRESENTATION OF MEDAL.—The gold medal pre-
sented under subsection (a) shall be presented to the eld-
est next of kin of each of the 60 diplomats identified in 
section 2(1), who shall receive the medal as part of a dele-
gation consisting of a senior official representative of the 
country that each diplomat served and the cochairs of the 
Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Committee. 
(d) UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MU-
SEUM.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Following the award of the 
gold medal in honor of the 60 diplomats identified 
in section 2(1), the gold medal shall be given to the 
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where 
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it will be available for display as appropriate and 
available for research. 
(2) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of 
Congress that the United States Holocaust Memo-
rial Museum should make the gold medal awarded 
pursuant to this Act available for display elsewhere, 
particularly at appropriate locations associated with 
Holocaust remembrance. 
SEC. 4. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 
The Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in 
bronze of the gold medal struck under section 3, at a price 
sufficient to cover the costs of the medals, including labor, 
materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses. 
SEC. 5. STATUS OF MEDALS. 
(a) NATIONAL MEDAL.—Medals struck pursuant to 
this Act are national medals for purposes of chapter 51 
of title 31, United States Code. 
(b) NUMISMATIC ITEMS.—For purposes of section 
5134 of title 31, United States Code, all medals struck 
under this Act shall be considered to be numismatic items. 
SEC. 6. AUTHORITY TO USE FUND AMOUNTS; PROCEEDS OF 
SALE. 
(a) AUTHORITY TO USE FUND AMOUNTS.—There is 
authorized to be charged against the United States Mint 
Public Enterprise Fund such amounts as may be nec-
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essary to pay for the costs of the medals struck under 
this Act. 
(b) PROCEEDS OF SALE.—Amounts received from the 
sale of duplicate bronze medals authorized under section 
4 shall be deposited into the United States Mint Public 
Enterprise Fund. 
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