Holocaust Days of Remembrance

MEMORANDUM FOR ALL COMMERCE EMPLOYEES

From: Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez

Subject: Holocaust Days of Remembrance

More than one million Jewish children were among the six million European Jews killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators during World War II. Only a small fraction of Europe’s Jewish children survived, and often it was because of the heroic efforts of men and women of great courage and compassion.

“Children in Crisis: Voices from the Holocaust”is the theme for the annual Days of Remembrance, which will be held from Sunday, April 15 through Sunday, April 22, 2007.

The annual Days of Remembrance, established by Congress in 1980, remind us to be eternally vigilant against bigotry, hatred and indifference. As the Yiddish poet Yitzhak Katzenelson wrote, “The first to perish were the children…From these a new dawn might have risen.”

For more information about the Days of Remembrance, please visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website at www.ushmm.org.

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