HARMAN STATEMENT CONDEMNING HOLOCAUST MUSEUM SHOOTING

Lawmaker says, “... it is time – past time – to end hate”

Washington, D.C. -- Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice) delivered the following remarks today on the House floor during consideration of H. Res. 529, which condemns yesterday’s shooting at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. 

Less than a mile from this Chamber, a hate crime occurred yesterday.

It occurred in a place of remembrance – a sanctuary.

That sanctuary – the Holocaust Museum – has meaning for everyone here.

It has special meaning for me because my father was a refugee from that Holocaust – and most of his family was killed in it.

One exhibit in the Holocaust Museum is a wall of shoes taken from innocent men, women and children before they were gassed to death.

Who were they?

What lives would they have led? 

Would their children end up serving here, as I do?

In the memory of Officer Johns and six million Jews, it is time – past time – to end hate. 

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