US Remembers International Holocaust Day

US Remembers International Holocaust Day

Washington DC: (Tuesday, January 31, 2012) Last week, the United States joined countries throughout the world in marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

While remembering the day, the US State Department said that they paused to honor the memory of the six million Jews and millions of others who were murdered at the hands of the Nazis.

Expressing integrity with the Jews worldwide, President Obama said, “we recommitted ourselves to keeping their memories alive not only in our thoughts, but through our actions.” This is a time to reflect on the meaning and lessons
of “Never Forget, Never Again.”

This past year, the world has seen Holocaust denial increasing throughout Europe, Asia, South America, and the Middle East.

The US state department, in its official press release on the occasion, maintained that there had been an upsurge in anti-Semitic acts, including hateful graffiti, cemetery desecrations, verbal and physical assaults on Jews, incitement
to anti-Semitic violence, and cartoons demonizing Jews.

According to the State Department, US, Denying the truth of the Holocaust is an insult to history. Thus, they urged governments, civil society leaders, clerics, human rights groups, and all people of conscience in all nations to
speak out against this kind of hatred.

The United States has also expressed its resolve to work with all of those who are committed to a world free of anti-Semitism and all other forms of ethnic or religious intolerance.

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