    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2007, Book I)]
    [January 26, 2007]
    [Page 71]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Statement on the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the
    Victims of the Holocaust
    January 26, 2007

        On the second International Day of Commemoration, we remember and
    mourn the victims of the Holocaust.
        Sixty-two years after the liberation of Auschwitz, we must continue
    to educate ourselves about the lessons of the Holocaust and honor those
    whose lives were taken as a result of a racist ideology that embraced a
    national policy of violent hatred and bigotry. It is also our
    responsibility to honor the survivors and those courageous souls who
    refused to be bystanders and instead risked their lives to try and save
    the Nazis' intended victims.
        Remembering the victims, heroes, and lessons of the Holocaust is
    particularly important today as Holocaust denial continues, urged on by
    the Iranian regime, which perversely seeks to call into question the
    historical fact of the Nazis' campaign of mass murder. We must continue
    to condemn the resurgence of anti-Semitism, that same virulent
    intolerance that led to the Holocaust, and we must combat bigotry and
    hatred in all their forms, in America and abroad.
        May God bless the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. And may we
    never forget.