Statement from Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Official Opposition, on National Holocaust Remembrance Day

As we commemorate Yom Hashoah, we remember what should have been impossible - the murder of a civilization. 

We remember the six million - wives and mothers, children and grandparents, families - torn apart by hatred, never to be made whole again. Winston Churchill called this dark chapter in our history "a crime without a name."

Today, we speak its name - Shoah, Holocaust, genocide - as an act of zachor, remembrance. We keep it alive in our memory so that it may be forever banished to our past.

We keep it alive in our support of the State of Israel, in our commitment to stand against anti-Semitism and all forms of racism, and in our resolve to stand against any state that practices the politics of hatred.

Together, we pledge to keep faith with the immortal hope of the victims of the Shoah - Jewish and non-Jewish - and together, we strive for the day when war and bloodshed cease, when nation will not threaten nation, and humankind will not again know war.

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