Cheshire County Sheriff Eliezer Rivera plans to travel to Poland later this month to participate in an anti-genocide training for law enforcement.
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me, which I am honored to have been selected and invited to attend,” Rivera said in a March 31 news release from the sheriff’s office.
The 2025 “Operationalizing Never Again: The Role of Law Enforcement in the Holocaust and Contemporary Genocide” event is hosted by Rutgers University’s Miller Center on Policing and Community Resilience, the University of Virginia’s Center for Public Safety and Justice and the Global Consortium for Law Enforcement Training Executives. Rivera was not available Monday to comment further.
Rivera, who is the president of the Small and Rural Law Enforcement Executives Association, is completing a series of webinars through the University of Virginia, the release said. The series focuses on the role of law enforcement in Nazi Germany.
In Poland, Rivera will meet with 50 other law-enforcement officers from around the world to participate in group discussions, and learn about the history of the Holocaust and the role law enforcement played in deportations and mass executions. Participants will tour the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, the site of a Nazi-run concentration and extermination camp.
Rivera also plans to participate in the March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau, alongside Holocaust survivors and thousands of others there to commemorate the genocide’s victims.
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