Abraham “Abe” Foxman, the former national director of the Anti-Defamation League who dedicated his 50-year career to promoting marginalized voices and combating antisemitism, died on Sunday. Foxman, who was 86, helmed the Jewish advocacy organization from 1987 to 2015, making him “one of the world’s foremost voices against antisemitism and hate,” the ADL said in a press release . Abraham Foxman died at 86 years old on Sunday. Getty Images Foxman was born in 1940 in modern-day Belarus. When his home country was seized by Nazi Germany just one year later, he was saved by a Polish Catholic nanny trusted with his care, the ADL said. He was separated from his parents, but they eventually reunited at the end of World War II. He lost 14 family members during the Holocaust, according to the organization. The nanny had sought to retain custody of Foxman. She lost the legal battle against Foxman’s parents, but refused to relent, and allegedly tried to kidnap him . It was then that his parents quietly fled to the US.…