In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, US Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff met with Holocaust survivor, Ruth Cohen to hear her story and “bear witness to the atrocities of the Holocaust,” a White House official says in a statement.
Cohen was born in Mukachevo, Czechoslovakia, in 1930 and was later imprisoned in several Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz. Her mother, brother, cousins and other loved ones were murdered during the Holocaust.
“During the meeting, the vice president discussed the president’s and her commitment to combating antisemitism and hatred wherever it exists. The vice president also discussed the importance of staying vigilant and teaching our children the truth about the horrors of the Holocaust,” the White House official says.
Emhoff is the first-ever Jewish spouse of a vice president.
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