{"id":164950,"date":"2026-04-13T23:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/164950\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:48:15","slug":"leaders-urge-action-at-holocaust-remembrance-event-at-pennsylvania-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/164950\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders urge action at Holocaust remembrance event at Pennsylvania Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) \u2014 Lawmakers and Jewish leaders warned that the seeds of antisemitism and hate that allowed the rise of the Nazis have not been eradicated during a remembrance event on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHistory has taught us that good people can become complacent, complicit in unspeakable atrocities through their collective silence. We must reject the wholesale degradation of any group of people by our leaders. If we do not, to paraphrase the words of German Lutheran Pastor Martin Niem\u00f6ller, when they come for you, there will be no one left to speak out,\u201d said Jonathan Scott Goldman with the Pennsylvania Jewish Coalition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"#sailthru-signup-widget\" data-ylk=\"slk:Close;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Close&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thanks for signing up!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch for us in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Subscribe Now<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The coalition held the 2026 Commemoration of the Holocaust inside the Governor\u2019s Reception Room at the State Capitol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Leaders spread the annual message: Never forget the killing of 6 million Jews during World War II. It\u2019s on everyone, they said, to be vigilant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) \u2014 Lawmakers and Jewish leaders warned that the seeds of antisemitism and hate that allowed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74351,5064,28,30,29,6651],"class_list":{"0":"post-164950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-collective-silence","9":"tag-jonathan-scott-goldman","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","12":"tag-pennsylvania-news","13":"tag-whtm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}