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Abraham H. Foxman (b. 1940) is the current National Director and chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. Foxman has worked for the Anti-Defamation League since 1965, and was promoted to National Director in 1987.
Born in Poland, Foxman was saved from the Holocaust by his Polish Catholic nanny who had him baptized into the Roman Catholic church and raised him as a Catholic until the end of the Holocaust. Most of his family was not as fortunate as he was, and were murdered in Nazi concentration camps.
He arrived in the United States in 1950 with his parents, graduated from Yeshiva of Flatbush, in Brooklyn, New York, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the City Colege of the City University of New York and graduated with honors in history. Foxman also holds a law degree from New York University's School of Law, and did graduate work in Jewish studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and in international economics at New York's New School University.
Foxman has worked with many world leaders, including past U.S. Presidents, the current U.S. President George W. Bush, and many Middle Eastern leaders, as well as with Pope John Paul II.