Dozens of House Democrats are demanding that the Trump administration acknowledge that the Holocaust targeted Jews, after the White House released a statement marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day without specifically mentioning the Nazi’s victims.
Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., and 91 other Democrats offered a resolution on Wednesday in response to the Trump White House.
While no text was available, a description of the resolution said it reiterates the “indisputable fact that the Nazi regime targeted the Jewish people in its perpetration of the Holocaust,” and called on “every entity in the executive branch to affirm that fact.”
The White House statement on Friday said it remembered and honored the “victims, survivors, heroes of the Holocaust.”
“It is impossible to fully fathom the depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror,” it added.
While it’s well known that the Holocaust led to the death of six million Jews, the White House statement didn’t mention that fact, leading to criticism from Democrats.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer responded on Monday by saying criticism of the statement is “pathetic.”
“The statement was written with the help of an individual who’s both Jewish and the descendant of Holocaust survivors,” Spicer said.
