Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, described being deeply moved by a 'solemn and sad' visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and said Saturday that it was an important part of his work combating antisemitism for the Biden administration.
Emhoff told reporters that he will never forget his emotional visit to the site Friday, where he saw children’s shoes and human hair stripped from people before they were murdered in the Nazi German death camp. Some 1.1 million people were killed there during World War II, around 90% of them Jews.of the camp on Jan. 27, 1945, with observances that second gentleman joined. He laid a wreath at an execution wall and listened to survivors recall what they had suffered there.
On Saturday evening he joined a Shabbat dinner with members of Krakow’s Jewish community, a chance to see how Jewish life is also growing again in central Europe. Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, left, visits the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp KL Auschwitz during ceremonies marking the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023.
He denounced “so-called” leaders who have been using antisemitism to promote their agendas and those who lack the courage to confront them at a time of murderous attacks on Jewish communities, hateful threats and antisemitic lies.
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