Today is
Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). Yesterday President Trump issued a Proclamation (
full text) asking the people of the United States:
to observe the Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, April 12 through April 19, 2018, and the solemn anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death camps, with appropriate study, prayers and commemoration, and to honor the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution by internalizing the lessons of this atrocity so that it is never repeated.