Holocaust Remembrance Day comes as many worry lessons are being forgotten
ABC News
President Biden released a statement to honor victims of the Holocaust and emphasize the importance of continuing to teach and learn from the atrocities.
As the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, the warning to "never forget" took on renewed meaning.
President Joe Biden, who was scheduled to host a 90-year-old Auschwitz survivor Bronia Brandman in the Oval Office, released a statement honoring the lives of the 6 million Jews and millions of others murdered by the Nazis while also highlighting the dangers of forgetting, denying and warping the history of the Holocaust.
"We must teach accurately about the Holocaust and push back against attempts to ignore, deny, distort, and revise history...We must continue to pursue justice for survivors and their families," he said in a statement.
Thursday's day of remembrance, the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, comes amid rising concerns about antisemitism. A report released last fall by the American Jewish Committee found that one in four American Jews were targeted by antisemitism in the previous year.
