New York, United States – April 19, 2016 – During the 2016 National Tribute Dinner the Wiesenthal Center Bestowed Medals of Valor on Father Norbert J. Hoffman SDB, Secretary of the Vatican’s Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, for tirelessly working to ensure that the bond between Catholics and Jews, forged by the historic Nostra Aetate declaration of 1965, remains unbreakable. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000 member families in the United States.