Obama Holocaust Museum Speech: President To Commemorate Shoah In D.C.

Fanny Aizenberg, age 94 and a Holocaust survivor lights a candle at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. (TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will mark the annual commemoration of the Holocaust during a speech Monday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

The White House says Obama will discuss his administration's strategy to prevent and respond to mass atrocities and address the United States' "never again" pledge to not stand by in the face of genocide.

Obama will also tour the memorial museum in Washington. He will be introduced by Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.

Since 1982, the Holocaust Memorial Museum has organized and led the national Days of Remembrance ceremony.

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Comments

[Jules Manson]

09:55 PM on 11/01/2012

I see many Israeli flags in this video and I think, what the hell does Israel have to do with the Shoah? When we dig deep enough we find that the lying to us about a deliberate genocide of Jews is a factor in harvesting enough support for founding and maintaining the apartheid state of Israel. Other motives for lying to us about the Shoah is German war reparations for prisoners of these concentration camps and a Kosher tax on many food items which really have nothing to do with Judaism. These are just a few motives which Zionist Jews have for promoting the holocaust.

[Jules Manson]

09:50 PM on 11/01/2012

I am a holocaust denier because I know Jews who control the mass media have ulterior motives for lying to us about this darkest period of history from the 20th century.

[jemiltd]

09:36 AM on 04/26/2012

I wonder how many are aware of a lesser known historical fact: Blacks in Germany were also killed in the Holocaust. I called the Museum once to ask if they were included in their historic presentations and the woman freaked out.

[bgofca]

07:45 PM on 04/24/2012

i wish that the genocide against the mayan indians in guatamala during reagans' illegal contra wars in which at least 50,000 mayans were killed was more publicized as well as the genecide against the native americans including the huge numbers killed during the 1800s in northern californa and oregon and washington state.

[Lifes1stCivilRight]

11:31 AM on 04/23/2012

I just finished listening to the President's speech at the Holocaust Museum, which was broadcast on Fox News. He made the most perfect PRO-LIFE speech I have heard. He of course was talking about the Jewish holocaust and other human atrocities, but if all you did was put it in the context of abortion, it was an excellent speech.

He spoke of conscience, teaching our children, on and on. He tried to paint himself as the supreme man of morality in all he has done, when at the same time he painted himself perfectly as the biggest villain in the biggest holocaust ever, if all you did was change the context from 'holocaust' to 'abortion' holocaust. Obama is the epitome of King David in his great sin: Read 2 Samuel chapters 11 & 12 in light of Nathan's question to King David. Obama is the rich man and King David in today's killings.

You HAVE to try to listen to a copy of that speech. You will cheer and throw up knowing the contrast, if you value life as he claims in his speech.

I pray for the end of all holocausts, but I pray especially for President Obama's conversion and repentance. Abortion IS the longest and most costly holocaust, far outnumbering all holocausts combined.

[bgofca]

07:47 PM on 04/24/2012

do you care about the person after their born or are you like most repuglicans who only care about embryos and fetuses but abandon any help with the child once it's born?

[warloch1]

11:21 AM on 04/23/2012

The FDR, Socialist liberal icon, refused to help Anne Frank, her family and other Jews. Obama LOVES FDR. What does that tell you about liberals and Obama?

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/02/26/3091850/op-ed-recalling-a-morman-senator-who-tried-to-save-anne-franks-life

[glitterpet]

04:21 PM on 04/23/2012

As Mr. Spock would say, "Illogical." Your post is a great big whopping guilt by association set up AND it's used as and ad hominem argument to discredit the President AND all liberals. Wow!

Your statement tells us NOTHING about either Obama or liberals. What it tells us is that you believe FDR was a liberal icon. What your post shows us is text a book perfect of logical fallacy used to discredit, and raises questions which are better left unasked. . .

[warloch1]

06:50 AM on 04/24/2012

glitt,
If you are going to accuse someone you might want to A. know what terms you are using and B. Not lie.
Did you read the article? Of course not because you do not want the truth. Obama and liberals frequently give tribute to FDR.

[montanadan]

08:06 PM on 04/23/2012

warloch1, just a heads-up, here -- Lifes1stCivilRight posted a comment but you didn't post a reply to it. I noticed you replied to every single post here except this one, and wanted to make sure you had noticed it.

HIGH FIVE!!!

[VinZenTexaN]

03:37 PM on 04/22/2012

Even this mass killing of Innocence man, woman and children happen because of religion !

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work

There is a reason why Atheists don't go around blowing up buildings.

The worst hell is a mind controlled by religion.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

[warloch1]

11:30 AM on 04/23/2012

Vin,
Hitler was a documented liar who frequently used providence as an excuse while he attacked Christian organizations and executed Christians.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_religion_did_Hitler_say_he_was_if_any

Hitler also killed thousands of retarded people. No religious involvement there.

"Athiests don't go around blowing up buildings"? Ever heard of Obama's best friend and political supporter 'Bill Ayers"? How about Ayer's organization the "Weather Underground"?

I agree with the last two sentences in your comment.

[nellpost]

03:31 PM on 04/22/2012

A President who is actually for goodness in America and the world. IMO

[warloch1]

11:32 AM on 04/23/2012

You want Romney or Gingrich as well.

[Patient Zero]

09:40 AM on 04/21/2012

It'd be more honest if Obama didn't say we'd never sit by and have a genocide happen, when we do it all the time.

[glitterpet]

04:14 PM on 04/22/2012

. . so, examples please?

[Lauren Rossnan]

04:36 PM on 04/26/2012

Darfur. Many Jews feel especially close to what is happening there. You will see many fundraisers and such done by all types of Shuls.

However, you won't see it on the news...

[glitterpet]

04:22 PM on 04/22/2012

. .contemporary ones? And please explain the definition of genocide you are using . . there are many in legal parlance. . .

[warloch1]

11:33 AM on 04/23/2012

Abortion?

[bgofca]

07:50 PM on 04/24/2012

reagan supported contras killed over 50,000 guatamalian mayan indians during his illegal war (which he waged even though congress passed a law forbidding him to start a war there.

[SPQR1775]

10:28 PM on 04/20/2012

The Jewish community have done an outstanding job to ensure their legacy and history survived. It is also vitally important that the Blacks and colored communities around the world create a Slave Trade and the History of Slavery in the World museum also, so that that story, history and struggle is NEVER forgotton also! The story of the Holocaust is the Story of the Slave Trade and Slavery in America and the European Powers who ensured it was carried out!

[warloch1]

11:36 AM on 04/23/2012

SPQR,
You forgot to include the fact slavery was started in Africa by African natives who would enslave each other. The Europeans found out about it and took advantage of it. If you want to include the truth.

[Ese Ahora]

12:39 PM on 04/23/2012

Yes but if white Jewish(no pun) slave merchants weren't on the west coast of Africa with ships fueled and financed by the European shipping industry, there would be no blacks in America as slaves. "If you want to include the truth" non of this wouldn't have happened if not for the Jewish slave traders who's descendants suffered a Holocaust. Genesis 15:14 "And that Nation that they serve I will punish"

[hawaiianstile]

05:11 PM on 04/20/2012

the US if founded upon genocide. where is the american holocaust museum? it seems hypocritical to me that america is getting involved so much with this german holocaust thing while they continue to ignore the continuing effect of their own holocaust. no day of remembrance, no museum, barely a paragraph in the school history book about the stolen lands all of america squats upon. such silence about the genocide, enslavement, torture, kidnapping, experimentation, rape, crimes against humanity that rival any that took place in germany. in fact nazi germany and apartheid africa looked to americas treatment of the tribes for inspiration on effective ways of conducting their own atrocities.

[Patient Zero]

10:00 AM on 04/21/2012

actually, i think that really is a good idea for a museum....

[JBaker]

10:54 PM on 04/21/2012

You raise a valid point.

However, the United States doesn't 'do' introspection - that's not its 'thing'. As Gore Vidal once wrote in frustration, we live in the United States of Amnesia.

[hawaiianstile]

02:30 AM on 04/22/2012

america is simply the top dog when it comes to controlling the minds of its masses. the ugly truth is that america has, in its time, revolutionized oppression.

[invisbl]

05:00 PM on 04/20/2012

What in the world are you talking about?

[SoapboxKing]

05:49 PM on 04/20/2012

Nothing of value. just plain hate speak.