[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 63 (Thursday, April 19, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Page S4724]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           NATIONAL COMMEMORATION OF THE DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE

  Mr. McCONNELL. With regard to today's remembrance of the Holocaust, 
at today's 2007 National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance 
ceremony, I will have the honor of lighting a candle alongside 
Holocaust survivor Eva Cooper. Eva was 10 years old when Nazis invaded 
her hometown of Budapest. She survived in hiding until Soviet forces 
liberated her and her family in 1945.
  Hearing stories like Eva's reminds us that the Holocaust was not one 
act of evil, but millions, an evil that slaughtered little children and 
horrified nations. Today, we remember evil and the strength and courage 
of those who lived under its dark reign.
  As time marches ever forward, fewer survivors like Eva Cooper will 
still live to tell us firsthand of the horrors they saw. That is why 
the mission of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the host of today's 
event, is so very important. History must never forget the horror 
committed against the Jewish people, so that horror of such magnitude 
can never, never happen again.
  Today's ceremony will also serve to remind us of the strength of the 
Jewish people in the face of atrocity. The resilience of those who 
survived, and the determination of those who remember, is proof that 
the dignity of the human soul will never be trampled by oppression, 
injustice, or terror.
  I yield the floor.

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