Nassau County Legislator Arnold W. Drucker (D - Plainview) joined religious leaders and his colleagues in government on Thursday, Jan. 27 to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
At sundown, the dome of the Theodore Roosevelt Executive & Legislative Building was illuminated yellow in accordance with the United Nations General Assembly observance of the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camps.
“On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the victims of the systemic, state-sponsored genocide in which 6 million Jewish men, women, and children and 11 million more innocent people were slaughtered,” Legislator Drucker said. “Let us honor their memory by recommitting ourselves to educating future generations about the evil atrocities that occurred, and by pledging to confront bigotry, ignorance and hatred wherever it continues to lurk.”