Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust
Grand Old Partisan celebrates more than seventeen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. Today, I appreciate Republican respect for the Jewish people. This day of 1981, President Ronald Reagan issued a proclamation, Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust : "The Congress of the United States established the United States Holocaust Memorial Council to create a living memorial to the victims of the Nazi Holocaust. Its purpose: So mankind will never lose memory of that terrible moment in time when the awful spectre of death camps stained the history of our world. When America and its allies liberated those haunting places of terror and sick destructiveness, the world came to a vivid and tragic understanding of the evil it faced in those years of the Second World War. Each of those names – Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Treblinka and so many others – became synonymous with horror. The millions of deaths, the gas chambers, the inhuman crematoria, and the t...