President Donald Trump vowed to eliminate anti-Semitism in his address yesterday at the Capitol, commemorating the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's National Days of Remembrance. President Trump’s address was a part of the museum's program observing Yom Hashoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel.

Trump said, "Today, we remember the six million Jewish men, women and children whose lives and dreams were stolen from this earth. Today, we mourn, we remember, we pray and we pledge: Never again. As President of the United States, I will always stand with the Jewish people. And I will always stand with our great friend and partner, the state of Israel."

In 1980, Congress established the Days of Remembrance as the nation's annual commemoration of the Holocaust. Observances and remembrance activities occur throughout the Week of Remembrance, which runs from the Sunday before Holocaust Remembrance Day through the following Sunday.

Yom Hashoah began at sundown on Sunday and ended at sundown on Monday in Israel. At 10:00 a.m., an air raid siren sounds throughout the country and Israelis observe two minutes of solemn reflection. Almost everyone stops what they are doing, including motorists who stop their cars in the middle of the road, standing beside their vehicles in silence as the siren is sounded.

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