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Photograph of representatives of the U.S. and Lithuania toast following the signing of the Agreement on the Protection and Preservation of Certain Cultural Properties between the two nations in Vilnius, Lithuania, October 15, 2002. From left are: Commission Chairman Warren L. Miller, U.S. Embassy Public Affairs Officer Michael J. Boyle, U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania John F. Tefft, Lithuania Minister of Culture Roman Dovydeniene, and Lithuania Deputy Foreign Minister Justas Vincas Paleckis. Photograph of the Commission Chairman Warren L. Miller, left, and Bosnia and Herzegovina's Foreign Minister, Zlatko Lagumdzija, signing the Agreement on the Protection and Preservation of Certain Cultural Properties between the U.S. and Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on July 2, 2002. U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Clifford G. Bond is standing behind Chairman Miller.
Photograph of Commission Chairman Warren L. Miller and Bulgaria's Ambassador to the U. S., Elena Poptodorova, signing the Agreement on the Protection and Preservation of Certain Cultural Properties between the U.S. and Bulgaria in Washington, D.C. on December 5, 2002. Photograph of Commission Chairman Warren L. Miller and Estonia's Minister of Culture Margus Allikmaa toasting, following the signing of the Agreement on the Protection and Preservation of Certain Cultural Properties between the U.S. and Estonia in Tallinn, Estonia on January 16, 2003. Behind Chairman Miller is U.S. Ambassador Joseph Michael DeThomas. Photograph of Commission Chairman Warren L. Miller and Latvia's Minister of Culture, Karina Petersone, shaking hands after signing of the Agreement on the Protection and Preservation of Certain Cultural Properties between the U.S and Latvia in Riga, Latvia, October 7, 2002.
Photograph of Commission Chairman Warren L. Miller and Lithuania's Minister of Culture Roma Dovydeniene, signing the Agreement on the Protection and Preservation of Certain Cultural Properties between the U.S. and Lithuania in Vilnius, Lithuania, on October 15, 2002. Photograph of the U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Foreign Minister Ilinka Mitreva, signing the Agreement on the Protection and Preservation of Certain Cultural Properties between the U.S. and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in Washington, D.C. on December 10, 2002. Commission Chairman Warren L. Miller and the Republic's Ambassador to the U.S., Nikola Dimitrov, are standing behind them. Photograph of U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Moldova Foreign Minister Nicolae Cernomaz, signing the Agreement on the Protection and Preservation of Certain Cultural Properties between the U.S. and Moldova in Washington, D.C. on June 20, 2001.
Photograph of Chairman Warren L. Miller, left, and Germany Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, signing the Joint Declaration of Agreement Concerning the Protection and Preservation of Places of Commemoration between the U.S. and Germany in the Indian Treaty Room in the White House Complex on May 19, 2003. (Photo by Jocelyn Augustino)
  An agreement between the U.S. and Croatia on the preservation of historic sites, religious buildings, cemeteries and memorials is signed by Croatia’s Culture Minister, Bozo Biskupic, left, and U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad Chairman Warren L. Miller, right, at the White House February 9th. Witnessing the signing are, from left, Croatia parliament member Mario Zubovic, Croatian Ambassador to the U.S. Neven Jurica, U.S. Commission member Gary J. Lavine, U.S. Special Envoy for Holocaust Affairs Edward O’Donnell, President Bush’s liaison to the Jewish community Noam Neusner, and National Security Council European and Eurasian Affairs Director Bertram Braun.  

Meetings with Foreign Leaders

Photograph of the Commission Chairman Warren L. Miller and Lithuania President Valdas Adamkus shaking hands after a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, October 14, 2002. Photograph of the Latvia President Vaira Vike-Freiberga examining a gift presented to her by Commission Chairman Warren L. Miller during a meeting at the President's official residence near Riga, Latvia on October 7, 2002. To President Vike-Freiberga's left is Andrejs Pildegovics, the President's Foreign Affairs Adviser, and Aiva Rozenberga, Press Secretary to the President. Photograph of Poland's President, Aleksander Kwasniewski speaking to Commission Chairman Warren L. Miller at a ceremony April 2002, at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw related to Poland's Jewish heritage.
Photograph of Chairman Warren L. Miller delivering remarks at the Embassy of Poland in Washington, D.C. following his acceptance of Poland’s Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit. President Aleksander Kwasniewski awarded Miller the medal for his “outstanding achievements in the area of Polish-Jewish reconciliation.” The medal was presented on July 8, 2003 by the President of Poland’s Senate, Longin Pastusiak (left). Poland’s Ambassador to the U.S., Przemyslaw Grudzinski, is at center. Photograph of Commission Chairman Warren L. Miller, left, and Slovakia's President, Rudolf Schuster, at the Slovakian Embassy in Washington, D.C., April 9, 2003 Photograph of Ukraine Prime Minister Victor Yanukovych as he listens to Commission Chairman Warren Miller discusses Jewish cemetery desecrations in Ukraine during a meeting on October 8, 2003.
  Picture of Commission Chairman Warren Miller meeting with Estonia Prime Minister Siim Kallas on January 17, 2003.  

Cultural Heritage Preservation Projects

Photograph of the pre-burial house at the Sarajevo Jewish Cemetery, Bosnia and Herzegovina, summer 2002. The building, part of the city’s oldest intact religious cemetery, was burned during the 1992-95 civil war. It is being restored with the U.S. aid through he Commission. Photograph of the Ozarow Jewish Cemetery in Poland, early 2001. The Commission co-sponsored its subsequent restoration. Photograph of a 17th century Greek-Catholic wooden church in Slovakia, Summer 2001. The church, one of 28 in the Carpathian region, is a Slovakian national historic site. The Commission is seeking assistance to preserve the church.
Photograph of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp 'Little Camp' Memorial in Germany, Spring 2002. The Commission sponsored the memorial. In words on one of the walls, the memorial provides a peaceful place for reflection on the site of the 'deepest despair'. Photograph of the Holocaust Memorial in the Rumbula forest, Riga, Latvia. The Commission co-sponsored and raised the funds for this memorial to more than 25,000 Jews murdered by the Nazis and local collaborators during two days in November and December of 1941. Latvia’s President Vaira Vike-Freiberga said at the dedication ceremony on November 29, 2002: 'It is a sad and black day in the history of Latvia, one about which we wish to tell our people and our children.' Photograph of Commission Chairman Warren L. Miller speaking at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. at a ceremony on March 13, 2002 commemorating the opening of a memorial on the site of the Nazis' Buchenwald Concentration Camp's "Little Camp". The memorial was a major Commission project.
Photograph of Commission Chairman Warren L. Miller and Commission Member Michael B. Levy presenting Bulgarian Ambassador to the United States Elena Poptodorova with a check for the restoration of the Sephardic Synagogue in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Mr. Levy helped raise the funds. Washington, D.C. October 30, 2002   Photograph of the Wyszkow Jewish Cemetary, Poland, April 2003.

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