PRESIDENT BIDEN RELEASES STATEMENT ON INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) Today, January 27, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. released a statement recognizing the importance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day*. The statement reads in part...
"We must never forget the truth of what happened across Europe or brush aside the horrors inflicted on our fellow humans because of the doctrines of hatred and division.
Each of us must...speak out against the resurgent tide of anti-semitism**, and other forces of bigotry and intolerance."
*IHRD was established by the United Nations in 2005 to honor all victims of the Nazi regime. January 27th was selected because on that date in 1945 the largest concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated by Soviet troops. During WWII, 5.7 million Jews were exterminated.
**Anti-semitism, hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people, is a term coined in 1879 by Wilhelm Marr to designate anti-Jewish campaigns in central Europe. While it is most apparent in the Nazi regime 1933-1945, anti-semitism existed during the same period in other countries including Britain, France, Hungary & the United States.
SOURCES
"Anti-Semitism," by Michael Berenbaum, Britannica, www.britannica.com/
"Statement by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., on International Holocaust Remembrance Day," January 27, 2021, The White House, www.whitehouse.gov/
