Another essay that should be read
The following statement was issued this past January in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
January 27, 2008
Statement by the President
International Day of Commemoration
In Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
On the third International Day of Commemoration, we remember and mourn the victims of the Holocaust.
I was deeply moved by my recent visit to Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Museum. Sixty-three years after the liberation of Auschwitz, we must continue to educate ourselves about the lessons of the Holocaust, and honor those whose lives were taken as a result of a totalitarian ideology that embraced a national policy of violent hatred, bigotry, and extermination. It is also our responsibility to honor the survivors and those courageous souls who refused to be bystanders, and instead risked their own lives to try to save the Nazis' intended victims.
Remembering the victims, heroes, and lessons of the Holocaust remains important today. We must continue to condemn the resurgence of anti-Semitism, that same virulent intolerance that led to the Holocaust, and we must combat bigotry and hatred in all forms, in America and abroad. Today provides a sobering reminder that evil exists and a call that when we find evil we must resist it.
May God bless the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. And may we never forget.
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Our President seems to do what many others have done. Any other race or group of people targeted by the Nazis are "others". Our own Holocaust Museum and Memorial in Washington D.C. has no Romani members on its board and publishes little or no information about them. Once they held a panel discussion on the Romani in the Holocaust and did not invite a Romani to even be on the panel. We will continue to remain "a footnote in history" unless we begin to educate the next generation of the full truth of the Holocaust, not just a portion.
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
January 27, 2008
Statement by the President
International Day of Commemoration
In Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
On the third International Day of Commemoration, we remember and mourn the victims of the Holocaust.
I was deeply moved by my recent visit to Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Museum. Sixty-three years after the liberation of Auschwitz, we must continue to educate ourselves about the lessons of the Holocaust, and honor those whose lives were taken as a result of a totalitarian ideology that embraced a national policy of violent hatred, bigotry, and extermination. It is also our responsibility to honor the survivors and those courageous souls who refused to be bystanders, and instead risked their own lives to try to save the Nazis' intended victims.
Remembering the victims, heroes, and lessons of the Holocaust remains important today. We must continue to condemn the resurgence of anti-Semitism, that same virulent intolerance that led to the Holocaust, and we must combat bigotry and hatred in all forms, in America and abroad. Today provides a sobering reminder that evil exists and a call that when we find evil we must resist it.
May God bless the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. And may we never forget.
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Our President seems to do what many others have done. Any other race or group of people targeted by the Nazis are "others". Our own Holocaust Museum and Memorial in Washington D.C. has no Romani members on its board and publishes little or no information about them. Once they held a panel discussion on the Romani in the Holocaust and did not invite a Romani to even be on the panel. We will continue to remain "a footnote in history" unless we begin to educate the next generation of the full truth of the Holocaust, not just a portion.