US President Joe Biden issued a statement on Wednesday, Holocaust Remembrance Day, highlighting the importance of Holocaust awareness.
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"We must never forget the truth of what happened across Europe or brush aside the horrors inflicted on our fellow humans because of the doctrines of hatred and division," Biden said.
The president said that he first learned about the Holocaust from his father, which eventually prompted him to take his own children to Dachau, and added he was hoping to visit it with his grandchildren too.
"We must pass the history of the Holocaust on to our grandchildren and their grandchildren in order to keep real the promise of 'never again,'" Biden stressed.
"Holocaust deniers and minimizers are growing louder in our public discourse," he warned, urging a more active fight against anti-Semitism and comparing the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, with the "anti-Semitic bile we heard in the 1930s in Europe."
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Saying that the event, which saw a deadly car-ramming attack on a group of counter-protesters, was the turning point for his decision to run for the White House, Biden stressed that the Holocaust occurred because too many governments approved "hate-fueled laws," and too many people were silent.
"We are committed to helping build a world in which the lessons of the Holocaust are taught and in which all human lives are valued," he wrapped up.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
