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Jay Rosenzweig, Canadian Human Rights Activist Calls Out Russian Atrocities in Ukraine

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Clad in body armor in a van racing along a Ukrainian highway from Warsaw to Kyiv, doling out carrots to his security team, the international businessman could be forgiven for thinking he was in a surreal dream.

But for Jay Rosenzweig, this important fact-finding mission as Chair of the Board of Canadian-based Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights was just another leg in his journey to change the world for the better, beyond his day job running a global executive recruitment and talent strategy firm headquartered in Toronto.

Jay Rosenzweig, Andriy Yermak, Head of Office of President Zelensky, Natan Sharanksy, Irwin Cotler Discuss the Lessons of Babyn Yar

The meeting was joined by: Soviet dissident, Israeli statesman and politician of Ukrainian origin, Knesset member, chairman of the executive board of the Jewish Agency for Israel and chairman of the supervisory board of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center Natan Sharansky; Canadian politician, parliamentarian, ex-Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada in 2003-2006 Irwin Cotler; Canadian investor, entrepreneur, human rights activist and head of the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights, who works in Ukraine, Jay Rosenzweig; President and CEO of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, member of the Canadian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Michael Levitt.