Thinking today on #YomHashoah about how we laid Secretary Albright to rest yesterday, and how one of the world’s great advocates for freedom and democracy first had to flee to America as a child to escape the horrors of the Shoah in Europe.
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Today, let us remember the 6.5 million Jews who were killed by the Nazis, but also the countless others whose lives were uprooted and destroyed in an effort to eliminate European Jewry.
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When we say #NeverAgain today, we do so in the shadow of the mass graves in Bucha and Mariupol, and the knowledge that that half of Ukraine’s children – boys and girls who were Madeleine’s age – have been displaced by Russia’s brutal invasion.
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We cannot reflect on the horrors of the past today without recognizing the horrors of the present. And we cannot commemorate this solemn day and declare “never again” without doing our part to grapple with the genocide in Ukraine.
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