    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2008, Book I)]
    [January 27, 2008]
    [Page 114]
    [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 27, 2008

        On the third International Day of Commemoration, we remember and
    mourn the victims of the Holocaust.
        I was deeply moved by my recent visit to Yad Vashem, Israel's
    Holocaust museum. Sixty-three 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 totalitarian
    ideology that embraced a national policy of violent hatred, bigotry, and
    extermination. It is also our responsibility to honor the survivors and
    those courageous souls who refused to be bystanders and instead risked
    their own lives to try to save the Nazis' intended victims.
        Remembering the victims, heroes, and lessons of the Holocaust
    remains important today. 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 forms in America and
    abroad. Today provides a sobering reminder that evil exists and a call
    that when we find evil, we must resist it.
        May God bless the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, and may we
    never forget.