[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 4 (Monday, January 29, 2007)]
[Page 87]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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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.