[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 18 (Friday, January 27, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H473]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               NEVER FORGET THE WORST GENOCIDE IN HISTORY

  (Mr. GOLDMAN of New York asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOLDMAN of New York. Mr. Speaker, we often say the words ``never 
forget.'' Never forget the worst genocide in history, we say.
  Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we must 
acknowledge the uncomfortable reality that we as a country are not 
adequately passing the critical lessons from the Holocaust on to the 
next generations.
  As the Representative of Borough Park in Brooklyn, with the largest 
population of Holocaust survivors and their families in the country, 
and as a proud American Jew from New York State, this is deeply 
personal to me and my constituents.
  We must continue to educate the next generations of Americans to 
understand the importance of the Holocaust so that it is not lost and 
that we never forget.
  I would like to stand here and read the names of my neighbors, those 
in my community who lost family and other loved ones in the Holocaust, 
but that list is just far too long.
  Instead, I ask that each of us take a moment to reflect today, to 
confront our past, and to acknowledge the work that must be done in the 
future to make sure that we truly never forget.

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