Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Tuesday released a statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“Each year on Yom Hashoah, we are called on to do something that sounds simple: to remember. But it’s much more than mere recollection; it’s a moral charge to ensure the unconscionable inhumanity of the Holocaust never, never fades from memory,” wrote Schumer.
“Two months ago, I led my first congressional delegation as Majority Leader. I took a group of eight senators to the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany and to Yad Vashem in Israel. At Dachau we solemnly walked through the gas chamber and crematoria where thousands of souls were murdered. At Yad Vashem, I laid a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance in memory of the six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. At both stops we reaffirmed our commitment to never again let such despicable evil occur,” he added.
“We owe it to the survivors, their families, and to the whole world to continue bearing witness to the horrors of the Holocaust, to fight antisemitism and bigotry wherever and whenever it rears its ugly head, and to repeat our conviction and our prayer: never again,” concluded Schumer.
On Monday, US President Joe Biden posted to his Twitter account on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we grieve the 6 million Jews and millions of other innocent lives lost during one of the darkest chapters in history,” he wrote.
“We can't redeem the past. But we can commit to building a future where we uphold the values of justice, equality, and diversity,” added Biden.
Last week, Biden signed a proclamation declaring that April 16 through April 23 would be a week of observance of the Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust.