For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
January 26, 2007
International Day of Commemoration In Memory of the Victims of the
Holocaust, 2007
On the second International Day of Commemoration, we remember and
mourn the victims of the Holocaust.
Sixty-two 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 racist ideology that embraced a
national policy of violent hatred and bigotry. It is also our
responsibility to honor the survivors and those courageous souls who
refused to be bystanders, and instead risked their lives to try and save
the Nazis' intended victims.
Remembering the victims, heroes, and lessons of the Holocaust is
particularly important today as Holocaust denial continues, urged on by
the Iranian regime, which perversely seeks to call into question the
historical fact of the Nazis' campaign of mass murder. 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 their forms, in America and abroad.
May God bless the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. And may we
never forget.
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