President Donald Trump commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day with a speech at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Tuesday. "We will bear witness, and we will act".
On Sunday, the president said in a speech to the World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly in NY that the Holocaust is "the darkest chapter of human history". "His absence leaves an empty space in our hearts, but his spirit fills this room". The annual observance also recognizes the American troops who liberated the Nazi concentration camps by opening with a procession of flags from each of the US Army liberating divisions. "I say it, never again".
"Today, only decades removed from the Holocaust, we see a great nation risen from the desert and we see a proud Star of David waving above the State of Israel", Trump said.
There was a 45 percent rise in anti-Semitic incidents, mostly insults and harassment of Jewish students, on US university campuses, the report said.
"We must defeat terrorism, and we must not ignore the threats of a regime that talks openly of Israel's destruction", Trump said.
Affirmed to Trump in the stories of Holocaust survivors, like the late Elie Wiesel, is the fact that "we must never, ever shrink away from telling the truth about evil in our time". We take this moment to not only pledge to never let their memory fade, but solemnly rededicate ourselves to never allowing something so evil and heinous to occur again.
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will dedicate a new conservation and research center in Maryland on Monday to coincide with Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Per Salon, Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin this week railed against Trump's denunciation of the Holocaust while arguing that "our President is being held hostage by vicious Jews" - and he said that Trump no longer had his support.
The week of remembrance has been observed in the US since 1979, according to the museum. "Jews across the country are outraged by this weird and unacceptable choice".
Yet CNN's Dan Merica attempted to turn that positive and commendable gesture into an opportunity to attack President Trump - and to do so using demonstrably false claims about the administration and its staff.
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