WHITE PLAINS – Saying it is “important to know the horrors inflicted in the Holocaust, which have been well-documented, must never be forgotten,” Westchester County Executive George Latimer marked the annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday.
Westchester Jewish Council CEO Elliot Forchheimer told the remembrance ceremony in White Plains that the Holocaust must never be forgotten.
“We ‘say never again,’ never again may the atrocities the Holocaust be tolerated in our great country, in the world. Never again can we allow anti-Semitism to occur, or any form of hate. We saw it happen two weeks ago in a synagogue where people went to pray and they became hostages. Never again. Not here, not there, not anywhere and not in our great county of Westchester,” he said.
The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 of each year as International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
During the Holocaust, the Nazis murdered six million European Jews and millions of others – political dissidents, gypsies and others.
