Embassy Events 2007
International Day of Commemoration In Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
29 January 2007
Statement by the President of the United States of America George W.
Bush
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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.
