US President Barack Obama spoke at a Holocaust Remembrance Day event at the US Capitol Thursday, and said he was committed to battling those who deny the atrocities of World War II.
The annual ceremony was held by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
“To this day, there are those who insist the Holocaust never happened, who perpetrate every form of intolerance,” the president said. “We have an opportunity as well as an obligation to confront these scourges… That is my commitment as president.”
He added, “How do we ensure that ‘never again’ isn’t an empty slogan or merely an aspiration, but also a call to action? I believe we start by doing what we are doing today – by bearing witness, by fighting the silence that is evil’s greatest co-conspirator.”
Obama also mentioned his visit to Yad Vashem and said that the nation of Israel had risen “from the destruction of the Holocaust.”
