NEW YORK – Today, State Senator Daniel Squadron spoke on the Senate's resolution commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day (J487), introduced by Senator Brad Hoylman and co-sponsored by Squadron and colleagues. The resolution recognizes the nearly 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Squadron's remarks criticized the President's choice to omit recognition of the millions of Jewish lives lost in the Holocaust in the White House's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day statement. Squadron's speech in full can be viewed here. 

"The Holocaust... was built on a fascist nationalism with a goal to exterminate the Jewish people from the face of the earth. To ignore that is to deny that, and to deny that is to erase it," said State Senator Daniel Squadron, in part. "We have to ask, why -- at a time and a moment we as a country and a world should be recommitting ourselves to the eternal memory of the 6 million so that we can prevent any horror against any people of that scale in the future -- our President would chose to erase the suffering and murder of Jews from this day? Holocaust Remembrance Day exists to make sure that we remember that we 'never forget' the horrors of the Holocaust."

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