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Gerhart Moritz Riegner (September 12, 1911 in Berlin – December 3, 2001 in Geneva) was a German philosopher, and the secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress from 1965 to 1983. He studied law in Heidelberg, Paris and at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
Gerhart Moritz Riegner (Berlín, 12 de septiembre de 1911 - Ginebra, 3 de diciembre de 2001) fue el secretario general del Congreso Judío Mundial de 1965 a 1983.
In August 1942, Gerhart Riegner, who worked for the World Jewish Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, informed the US State Department and the British Foreign Office that he had information that Nazi Germany was planning to murder millions of European Jews.
23 de may. de 2024 · On 8 August 1942, the World Jewish Congress representative in Geneva, Gerhart M. Riegner, sent a telegram to British and American diplomats providing them with reliable information about Hitler’s plans to annihilate millions of European Jews.
The Riegner Telegram was a telegraph message sent on 8 August 1942 from Gerhart Riegner, then Secretary of World Jewish Congress , to its New York and London offices. The cable confirmed the alarming reports that had reached the West previously about the German intention to mass murder the European Jews.
On August 8, 1942 the thirty-one-year-old Gerhart M. Riegner, then Secretary of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), sent a short telegram to the US Foreign Office in which he shared confidential reports he had received that Germany planned to exterminate all Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Gerhart Moritz Riegner fue el secretario general del Congreso Judío Mundial de 1965 a 1983.
