President Trump on Friday promised to “make love and tolerance prevalent throughout the world” again in a statement marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“It is with a heavy heart and somber mind that we remember and honor the victims, survivors, heroes of the Holocaust,” the president said, adding that “it is impossible to fully fathom the depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror.”
“In the name of the perished, I pledge to do everything in my power throughout my presidency, and my life, to ensure that the forces of evil never again defeat the powers of good,” he continued.
Trump is expected to temporarily suspend the U.S. refugee program through executive action, a move that is drawing outrage from human rights groups who’ve drawn comparisons to Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany.
“The entire refugee convention came out of the Holocaust and the failure of the international community to protect Jews and survivors. It’s a schonde,” Mark Hetfield, president of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, told Haaretz on Friday.
