Office of the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues: what Wikipedia removed

The Office of the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues is the U.S. State Department office that handles Holocaust-era property restitution and Nazi-era compensation. Through the 2020 snapshot the opening said the office was dedicated to returning victims’ lost property ‘and monitoring anti-Semitism going forward.’ Today the opening describes only restitution, compensation and commemoration; antisemitism appears three times in the body but not in the opening. A reader arriving now learns the office’s property and compensation mission, and not that its own stated mandate once included monitoring antisemitism.

The word “antisemitism” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 3. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

Where this comes from

We saved this article’s opening paragraph at 3 moments between 2020 and 2025. Everything below is Wikipedia’s own text, quoted from those saved copies. The interactive version, with every snapshot side by side and each removal marked in place, is at ilroot.com/case/office-of-the-special-envoy-for-holocaust-issues.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

word	2020	6 October 2023	2025
antisemitism	1	0	0

Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

• The description of the office’s mission to monitor antisemitism going forward, alongside restitution work, is gone from the opening; the word survives three times elsewhere in the article.

How it opened then, and now

2020 (revision 945738682):

The Office of the Special Envoy on Holocaust Issues is an office in the United States State Department dedicated to returning to Holocaust -era victims their lost property, and monitoring anti-Semitism going forward. The office includes a Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues and a Special Adviser for Holocaust Issues. The current Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues is Thomas K. Yazdgerdi, who was appointed August 22, 2016. ^ United States Department of State ^ U.S. Department of State: biography of Thomas K. Yazdgerdi, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues

2025 (revision 1271581519):

U.S. diplomatic office The Office of the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues is a diplomatic office of the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State . Established in 1999, the office develops and implements U.S. policy to ensure Holocaust property restitution , secure compensation for Nazi-era wrongs, and promote Holocaust commemoration. The office is led by the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues (SEHI), who reports to the Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs . Career Foreign Service officer Ellen Germain has served as Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues since August 23, 2021. ^ “Office of the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues” . State D…

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