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On the recordApril 28, 2022
I rise and desire that the statement from Majority Leader Hoyer be acknowledged. His statement is styled, ``Hoyer Statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day.'' And I associate myself with many of the things in this statement, but the thing that I want to associate myself with the most are the final words in his statement: ``Never Forget. Never Again.'' I associate myself with his statement. Hoyer Statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day ``On Yom HaShoah, we remember the six million Jews and millions of others murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. The genocide perpetrated by Adolf Hitler and his fascist collaborators--and enabled by the indifference of millions of people in Germany and across Europe--continues to bear scars to this day, with the families of victims and survivors still living with immense trauma and grief. The Holocaust was not only an immeasurable tragedy for the Jewish people; it was also a low point for humanity, when the worst evils of human hatred were unleashed in a way that was methodical and on an industrial scale in an effort to dehumanize and destroy an entire ethnic group.…
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Al Green
Democratic · Texas
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Apr 28, 2022

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