The president, flanked by Israel's ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer - a US-born former Republican operative close to U.S. conservatives - vowed to protect the Jewish people in the United States and overseas and criticized those who deny that the mechanized murder of 6 million Jews ever happened.
"Those who deny the Holocaust are an accomplice to this terrible evil and (we) will never be silent, we just won't, we will never ever be silent in the face of evil again", said Trump, at the National Days of Remembrance ceremony on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
"Your stories remind us that we must never ever shrink away from telling the truth about evil in our time", Trump told the survivors.
"Those who deny the Holocaust are an accomplice to this disgusting evil, and we'll never be silent".
Trump said the creation of the state of Israel after the Holocaust was "an eternal monument to the undying strength of the Jewish people".
The museum will also unveil a new research center during Trump's appearance, a forum that will include details records and artifacts donated by Jews who were persecuted by Hitler during the Holocaust.
"The administration and Congress have to speak against the phenomenon", said Ms. Shorer, who in one of her many jobs during a 40-year diplomatic career worked with U.S. Congress in the Israeli embassy. "She saw a auto coming towards her", Trump said.
Asked about the rise of anti-Semitism since his election, Trump told a Jewish reporter to "sit down" during a news conference in February before defending himself as "the least anti-Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life". Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL, issued a statement welcoming Trump's remarks, though not without a caveat. We will condemn hatred.
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Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, converted to Judaism before marrying her husband, Jared Kushner, now a senior White House adviser. "This is my pledge to you - we will confront anti-Semitism".
Trump's posture won praise from Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the United States, who celebrated the USA missile strike on a Syrian airfield, which Trump authorized in retaliation for Assad's chemical weapons attack in that country's civil war.
"You witnessed evil", Trump told them. Fewer and fewer survivors are alive for the ceremony each year, and most, like Mandel, were children during the Holocaust.
"We must stamp out prejudice and anti-Semitism everywhere it is found", he said.
The week of remembrance has been observed in the US since 1979, according to the museum. "That is why we are here today, to remember and to bear witness", he said. "We just won't", he said.
And to Holocaust deniers, he said: "Those who deny the Holocaust are an accomplice to evil".
"Trump's demonization of immigrants and Muslims, his denigration of the press, his attacks on the judicial system and other actions that seek to undermine the institutions that protect our civil society, coupled with his ongoing admiration for authoritarian leaders, illustrate both his failure to learn the painful lessons of the Shoah and his contempt for the most fundamental democratic, Jewish and American values, said Stosh Cotler, the group's CEO, using the Hebrew word for the Holocaust". And we will act.
Each survivor here today is a beacon of light, and it only takes one light to illuminate even the darkest space.
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