Ed Royce: “I would begin by saying I appreciate the efforts of the gentleman from New York (Mr. Israel). I appreciate his work here…”

“I would begin by saying I appreciate the efforts of the gentleman from New York (Mr. Israel). I appreciate his work here for authoring this resolution. I think it, again, has been said, but his life's work, Elie Wiesel's life's work, cannot possibly be overstated. I think that for those who have called for us to remember, who have called for us to take action, no time is more probably important than today, when we see the anti- Semitism, when we saw the attacks in Paris, when we see these attitudes. People say never forget. That is correct. Here are some of the words that he spoke when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1986. He said: ``I remember: it happened yesterday or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the kingdom of night.'' I think he was 15 at the time that he was held in the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and later Buchenwald, 15 years of age. He said: ``I remember his bewilderment,'' speaking of himself. He said: ``I remember the anguish. It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. ``I remember,'' and he asked his father, `` `Can this be true?' This is the 20th century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent? ``And now the boy is turning to me,'' he said later in life as he reflected on this. `` `Tell me,' '' he asks.…”