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WASHINGTON – Today is Yom Hashoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day to commemorate the persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.  Yom Hashoah marks the date on the Hebrew calendar of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in which the Jews forced to live in the Warsaw ghetto resisted Nazi deportation efforts. Rep. Foxx participated with Congressional members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council in a memorial event for Yom Hashoah in the U.S. Capitol, reading the names of Holocaust victims and lighting a candle in their honor.

Rep. Foxx stated, “Today we remember the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust and the heroism of the survivors and their rescuers.  It was moving to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day with Holocaust survivor volunteers from the Holocaust Museum who tell their stories so that we can learn from history and never again see the destruction caused by such hateful anti-Semitism.”

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U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx represents North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District and is Senior Republican of the House Committee on Education and Labor.