![]() ![]() “And we must not forget that individuals, armed with the truth and their convictions, can use those same mechanisms to save lives.” How the sanitized language of cables, briefings, and regulations can be used to turn away people we should help,” he said. “We must never forget the way individuals can make entire systems, from top to bottom, tilt toward the inhumane. He singled out one by name, Breckenridge Long, a wartime assistant secretary of state who Blinken said lied to Congress, blocked reports of mass killings and put up bureaucratic obstacles to keep Jews out of the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, whose stepfather was a Holocaust survivor, honored the victims and criticized State Department officials who prevented European Jews from immigrating to the U.S. Israel gained independence in 1948 in part as a refuge for Jews. Holocaust memorial day is is one of the most somber days in the Israeli calendar, marking the anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising - the most significant act of Jewish resistance against Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. The world cannot afford to forget what happened, (or) not embrace what’s happening now.’” “It think it’s our job as educators to come to the world and say, ‘Listen people. Doctors all over the world are fighting to save people,” said Shmuel Rosenman, chairman of the march. “We look at the pandemic, it happens once in 100 years. But organizers of the annual march said they wanted to honor the frontline workers who treat and counsel people who are suffering, at great risk and cost to themselves. The scale and circumstances differ between the pandemic’s toll and the Nazi-engineered genocide of 6 million Jews during World War II. The enduring lesson of the ages, Fauci said, is not just “that goodness and evil coexist, but that we are free to choose one over the other.” “I believe that the healing arts lie on the path of goodness, the same path all of you have chosen in remembering and listening to the voices of those who perished in the Holocaust,” Fauci said. ![]()
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