Simon Wiesenthal Center's Honorees to Include Universal Studios Founder, Lionsgate CEO

LOS ANGELES, CA The Rev. Norbert J. Hoffman, the secretary of the Vatican's Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, was among the recipients of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Medal of Valor at its annual National Tribute Dinner tonight at The Beverly Hilton.

Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Studios, posthumously received the medal for rescuing hundreds of German Jews during the 1930s.

Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer received the center's highest honor, the Humanitarian Award, for his support of the center and its Museum of Tolerance.

The Westside-based Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish human rights organization that combats hate and anti-Semitism around the world.

City News Service; Photo: Carl Laemmle courtesy of Wikimedia Commons