Governor Corbett Honors Holocaust Victims at Remembrance Event
HARRISBURG, Pa., May 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Tom Corbett today paid tribute to victims of the Holocaust at a remembrance ceremony held in his Reception Room at the state Capitol.
Corbett said the world must never forget the atrocities committed by the Nazi German government. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews.
"The human imagination is not large enough to comprehend the loss of 6 million people," Corbett said. "We can only stand in humility before this loss. We can try to comprehend. We can struggle to explain. We dare not forget."
The annual civic remembrance event is organized by the Pennsylvania Jewish Coalition. Today's ceremony included presentations by legislative leaders, a candle lighting by Holocaust survivors, interfaith messages, an essay reading and a musical selection from the Holocaust era.
Corbett said keeping alive the memory of Holocaust victims is a solemn duty of people who want to ensure such atrocities are never repeated.
"We must recall the names of these lost people. It is our duty to speak the names we know. When we don't know their names, we must speak of their hope," Corbett said. "Dreams don't die if someone picks them up and continues. It is our obligation to the dead; our obligation to history."
Media contact: Kevin Harley, 717-783-1116
SOURCE Pennsylvania Office of the Governor
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