Julius Genachowski, chief of the FCC, has been selected to lead a presidential delegation to a commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

That’s fitting, since Genachowski’s  father and grandparents are survivors, and his great grandmother was killed at Auschwitz.

Also in the delegation: Lee  Feinstein, the U.S. Ambassador to Poland, presidential assistant Susan Sher and and Hannah Rosenthal, the State Department’s Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Anti-Semitism, U.S. Department of State.

In marking the event, President Barack Obama said “Those of us who did not live through those dark days will never truly understand what it means to have hate literally etched into your arms.  But we understand the message that you carry in your hearts. For you know the truth that Elie Wiesel spoke when I stood with him at Buchenwald last spring.  There, where his father and so many innocent souls left this earth, Elie said that memory has become the sacred duty of all people of goodwill.’”

Also the President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, presented United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Director Sara J. Bloomfield, with the Officers Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland in recognition of the Museum’s work in preserving the memory of the victims of the Holocaust.

Today’s event was organized by the European Jewish Congress.

Tags: Auschwitz, Barack Obama, Holocaust, Julius GEnachowski, Sara Bloomfield, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

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