The honorary chairman of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) has accused the White House of “gratuitously violating the memory of the murdered millions” by its failure to mention Jewish victims in its statement marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Professor Yehuda Bauer, the prominent Holocaust historian who chairs the alliance, pointed out that “all IHRA Member Countries, including the USA, one of the founders, are committed to the 2000 Stockholm Declaration which defines the Holocaust as the genocide of the Jews in World War II, in line with repeated US statements, and not as a term that includes all the horrors committed by Nazi Germany, claiming millions of innocent victims aside from the Holocaust.
“We recognise the unprecedented policy of total annihilation aimed at the Jewish people. However, the Jews are not even mentioned in the Presidential statement, thus gratuitously violating the memory of the murdered millions.”
Professor Bauer also noted that “on the same day, an Executive Order was issued by the President's office, banning refugees from entering the US, singling out persons from mainly Muslim countries.
