Trump Urges Americans to Observe Holocaust Remembrance Day, Condemns Rising Antisemitism - Faith & Freedom News

Washington, D.C., April 24, 2025 – In a White House statement released Wednesday, President Donald Trump called on all Americans to observe the Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust from April 20 through April 27, 2025, marking the solemn anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death camps.

“Whoever saves one life saves the whole world,” Trump quoted, bowing “our heads to the memory of all those who lost their lives innocently during the emergency.” He reflected on the horrific toll of the Holocaust, noting that “hundreds of thousands of our fellow Hungarian Jews were dragged away and destroyed,” and stressed that “the price to humanity of the lives lost during the Shoah can never be fully grasped or understood.”

Recognizing the resurgence of antisemitism at “a record high” in the United States, Trump affirmed his administration’s commitment to combating hate. “Nearly every day following the deadly October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, Jewish Americans were threatened on our streets and in our public square,” he wrote, condemning the “poison of antisemitism.” He cited an Executive Order directing federal agencies to use “all available and appropriate legal tools to combat the explosion of antisemitic harassment in our schools and on college campuses,” including the removal of foreign nationals who violate U.S. law.

Trump also highlighted the enduring legacy of the Jewish people: “Even in the wake of the Holocaust, a self-determined Jewish homeland rose from the ashes as the modern State of Israel.” He urged citizens to honor the victims through “appropriate study, prayers, and commemoration” and warned that “never again means now.”

The president concluded: “I do hereby ask the people of the United States to observe the Days of Remembrance… and to honor the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution by remembering the lessons of this atrocity so that it is never repeated.”