Allard to participate in Holocaust ceremony

U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., has been invited to participate in today’s National Days of Remembrance ceremony in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Allard, who was invited by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, will participate in the annual ceremony where six memorial candles are lit jointly by a member of Congress with an individual who experienced Nazi persecution.

“The Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity,” Allard said in a press release from his Washington office. “As an ongoing pledge to ensure that this dark part of our world’s history never repeats itself, we participate in the National Days of Remembrance. We must continue to draw attention to the voices of victims of oppression and genocide and I am honored to be a part of this ceremony.”

Congress established the Days of Remembrance as the nation’s annual commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to those victims. Since 1982, the museum has organized and led the National Days of Remembrance ceremony which is attended by Holocaust survivors, liberators, members of Congress, White House officials, the diplomatic corps and community leaders.