REMEMBRANCE DAY VERIFICATION

That must be our mission, on this International Holocaust Remembrance Day and always.Every year, on 11 November at 11 am - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month - we pause to remember those men and women who have died or suffered in all wars, conflicts and peace operations. And that we do everything in our power to stop conflicts before they start. That we speak up against manifestations of hate against any and all groups, wherever they occur. In moments like this, it becomes ever more important that we all remain vigilant against efforts to rewrite history, and protect the facts of the Holocaust. They foreshadow trouble not only for Jews, but also for other marginalized groups, that, if left unaddressed, is often a precursor to violence. History tells us these acts are often the canary in the coalmine. That charge is as important as ever today, as we see rising anti-Semitism and Holocaust distortion and denial around the world. She and her brother both joined the Department, Susan said, to “stand up to the voices of hatred, division, and oppression and to fulfill promise as a beacon of democracy and justice in the world.” People like Susan Benda, the daughter of Holocaust survivors and a lawyer for the State Department, and whose grandparents were murdered at the Chelmno death camp. Many of these descendants felt a pull towards diplomacy – to resolve conflicts with dialogue, not war, and to work so that such a genocide would never happen again.Īnd many others lost family members in the Shoah. Others, like Embassy Jerusalem Deputy Chief of Mission Jonathan Shrier, had relatives rescued by foreign diplomats, who granted them the visas that got them out of harm’s way. Some colleagues, like Foreign Service Officer Mark Mishkin, had grandparents whose lives were saved by American and other Allied troops. We honor, too, Holocaust survivors those who saw true evil, and whose lives were unalterably shaped by it.Ĭountless families were forever changed – including my own, as well as those of numerous colleagues here at the State Department. Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honor those innocent lives lost. By then, more than six million Jews and millions more people – including Roma and Sinti, Slavs, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ individuals – had been killed by the Nazis and their collaborators. Seventy-seven years ago today, the largest concentration and death camp in Europe, Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs.

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