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"The mind cannot
fathom the pain, the horror and the loss. Six million Jews,
two-thirds of the Jews in Europe, murdered by the Nazi genocide.
They were murdered by an evil that words cannot describe, and
that the human heart cannot bear," Trump said in a speech to the
World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly in New York on Yom
HaShoah, Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day.
"On Yom HaShoah, we look back at the darkest chapter of human
history," Trump added. "We mourn, we remember, we pray, and we
pledge: 'Never again.'"
In January, on international Holocaust Remembrance Day, a Trump
administration statement failed to mention Jews, the
overwhelming majority of those who were killed in concentration
camps under Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
Earlier this month, White House spokesman Sean Spicer triggered
an uproar when he said Hitler did not sink to the level of
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by using chemical weapons.
Spicer later apologized after his comments aroused criticism on
social media and elsewhere for overlooking the fact that
millions of Jews were killed in Nazi gas chambers.
Trump's four-minute message included somber references to Jewish
suffering in the Holocaust, a commitment to support Israel and a
rebuke of prejudice and anti-Semitism.
"We must stamp out prejudice and anti-Semitism everywhere it is
found. We must defeat terrorism, and we must not ignore the
threats of a regime that talks openly of Israel’s destruction,"
Trump said in an apparent reference to Iran.
(Reporting by Julia Edwards Ainsley; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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