Kosovo’s Acting President Vjosa Osmani and Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti laid wreaths by a memorial honouring Jewish victims of the Holocaust in front of the government building in Pristina. Mission Israel | 18 April, 2023 | Topics: News, President of the United States, Press Releases, U.S.Events were held in countries across the Balkans on Wednesday to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the victims of the Nazi genocide during World War II on the day on which Soviet troops entered the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland in 1945. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-seventh.īy U.S. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 16 through April 23, 2023, as a week of observance of the Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, and I call upon the people of the United States to observe this week and pause to remember victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Together, we can ensure that “never again” is a promise we keep. And the violence of antisemitism will not be the story of our time. Today and always, we make our message clear: Evil will not win. Hate must have no safe harbor in America or anywhere else. And I convened the first-ever White House summit on combating hate-fueled violence because nobody should fear going to a religious service, wearing a symbol of their faith, or simply being who they are. We secured the largest increase in funding ever for the physical security of nonprofits, including synagogues, Jewish Community Centers, Jewish day schools, and other houses of worship.
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We are developing a national strategy to counter antisemitism - mobilizing the full weight of the Federal Government to fight this scourge of hate in America - and we have co-sponsored a United Nations resolution to combat Holocaust denial through education. That is why I appointed Deborah Lipstadt, a historian of the Holocaust, as the first Ambassador-level Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. My Administration has not and will not be indifferent. And it is a stark reminder - as my dear friend Elie Wiesel once said - that “Indifference is always the friend of the enemy.” And as my father taught me, “silence is complicity.”
The venom and violence of antisemitism goes against all the values we stand for as Americans. We have seen this hard truth across our country, from swastikas on cars and antisemitic banners on bridges to attacks against Jewish people at schools and synagogues and outright Holocaust denialism. It only hides - lurking until it is given the oxygen to emerge again. Unfortunately, hatred never truly goes away. The rite of remembrance becomes more urgent with each passing year, as fewer survivors remain to share their stories and open our eyes to the harms of unchecked hatred. We must never look away from the truth of what happened. We remember the cries for help that went unanswered and the bright futures cut short. The horrors of the Holocaust are painful to recount - the savage murder of innocent families and the systemic dehumanization of entire populations. I will never forget meeting with two survivors on that sacred ground and hearing their stories. Last year, I returned to Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, to pay tribute to the lives that were stolen during this dark chapter of our history and to honor their memory. Together with courageous survivors, descendants of victims, and people around the world, we renew our solemn vow: “never again.” Blinken at the 2023 American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy SummitĪ Proclamation on Days Of Remembrance Of Victims Of The Holocaust, 2023ĭuring Yom HaShoah and throughout these days of remembrance, we mourn the six million Jews who were murdered during the horror of the Holocaust - as well as the millions of Roma and Sinti, Slavs, disabled persons, LGBTQI+ individuals, and political dissidents who were murdered at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators.
Ambassador Michèle Taylor, descendant of Holocaust survivors Meet Opal Lee, ‘grandmother of Juneteenth’.Ambassador to Israel Hosts the Embassy’s annual Iftar Ambassador Tom Nides – March of the Living.Happy Independence Day – Ambassador Tom Nides.
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