(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, JAN 27 - Joe Biden commemorates Remembrance Day by pointing out how remembering all "the victims, heroes and lessons of the Holocaust is particularly important today, when those who deny and minimize it become increasingly loud in our public speeches" .
It was evoking "the horrors seen and felt in Charlottesville in 2017, with white nationalists and neo-Nazis spewing the same anti-Semitic bile felt in the 1930s in Europe".
The latter reason, he explains, prompted him to run for the White House.
But the facts are not debatable and each of us must remain vigilant and speak out against the rising tide of anti-Semitism and other forms of fanaticism and intolerance, here in our country and in the world ".
"Today - he continued - I reiterate the simple truth that preventing future genocides remains both a moral duty and a matter of national and global importance".
Biden also condemned the complicity of silence: "The Holocaust was not an accident of history. It happened because too many governments adopted in cold blood and implemented hate-fueling laws and practices to denigrate and dehumanize entire groups of individuals. And too many. individuals remained silent. Silence is complicity ".
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