More than six decades after the inhumane tragedy that took the lives of six million Jews, this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 2, was marked with honor by President Barack Obama.
The internationally recognized date is different every year on the Western calendar, but it corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar.
In a statement this year, Obama highlighted the urgency to “listen to and care for the last living survivors, camp liberators, and the witnesses to the Shoah.”
“I join people here at home, in Israel, and around the world in commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day and in honoring the memory of all those who suffered, died and lost loved ones in one of the most barbaric acts in human history,” Obama said.
This year marks the 65th anniversary of the verdicts at the first Nuremberg trial and the 50th anniversary of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust under Adolf Hitler.
“From this tragedy we see the cost of allowing hatred go unanswered in the world, but from this justice we also see the power of holding the perpetrators of genocide accountable,” Obama said. “Remembering these events only reinforces our solemn commitment to confront those who tell lies about our history and to stop the spread of hate in our own time.”
The internationally recognized date is different every year on the Western calendar, but it corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar.
In a statement this year, Obama highlighted the urgency to “listen to and care for the last living survivors, camp liberators, and the witnesses to the Shoah.”
“I join people here at home, in Israel, and around the world in commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day and in honoring the memory of all those who suffered, died and lost loved ones in one of the most barbaric acts in human history,” Obama said.
This year marks the 65th anniversary of the verdicts at the first Nuremberg trial and the 50th anniversary of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust under Adolf Hitler.
“From this tragedy we see the cost of allowing hatred go unanswered in the world, but from this justice we also see the power of holding the perpetrators of genocide accountable,” Obama said. “Remembering these events only reinforces our solemn commitment to confront those who tell lies about our history and to stop the spread of hate in our own time.”
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