Political Quotes

“Last week marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in southern Poland. On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops freed the prisoners at Auschwitz, the largest Nazi death camp. During that same period, our American troops were freeing prisoners at other death camps. This year, the world noted the significance of this anniversary. On Monday, at the request of the United States, Canada, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, and Russia, the United Nations held the first-ever General Assembly commemoration of the World War II Holocaust. Six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, including two-thirds of European Jews. As we remember the many who suffered and died at Auschwitz and at the other concentration camps, we must not forget the lessons of the past. These awful events revealed what people can do to one another, and we can never forget what happened only 60 short years ago. In not forgetting, we must be careful that this form of genocide is never repeated. Even now, in too many countries, anti-Semitism is on the rise.”