And it falls to each of us to speak out against the resurgence of antisemitism and ensure that bigotry and hate receive no safe harbor, at home and around the world. From the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, to a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, we are continually and painfully reminded that hate doesn’t go away it only hides. Today, and every day, we have a moral obligation to honor the victims, learn from the survivors, pay tribute to the rescuers, and carry forth the lessons of last century’s most heinous crime. Today, she’ll share her story at the White House-and speak for millions who never got the chance. A survivor of Auschwitz who lost her parents and four of five siblings, she could not speak of her experiences for half-a-century. And today, as President, I’ll welcome Bronia Brandman to the Oval Office. As a father and grandfather, I brought my own family to see its haunting remnants at the Dachau concentration camp. This charge is even more urgent with each passing year, as fewer and fewer survivors remain to share their stories of lives lost and lives rebuilt.Īs a child, I first learned of the Holocaust listening to my father at our dining room table. It was a destructive force so unimaginable that it gave rise to an entirely new vocabulary of evil: words like “holocaust,” “genocide,” and “crimes against humanity.” We join with nations of the world to grieve one of the darkest chapters in human history-and to bear witness for future generations so that we can make real our sacred vow: “never again.” Today, we attempt to fill a piercing silence from our past-to give voice to the six million Jews who were systematically and ruthlessly murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators, and to remember the millions of Roma, Sinti, Slavs, disabled persons, LGBTQ+ individuals, and political dissidents who were killed during the Shoah. Get Involved Show submenu for “Get Involved””.
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