The Capital District Jewish Holocaust Memorial, Inc. is outraged and deeply concerned about the tragic
murder of two innocent Jewish individuals who were gunned down as they exited an event and the Jewish
Museum in Washington, DC last night.
We are heartbroken and send our sincere condolences to the families and friends of Yaron Lischinsky and
Sarah Milgrim who were targeted solely because they were Jewish.
This was a horrific act of antisemitic violence, pure and simple. This attack was more than an attack on
two more Jewish innocents. This violence is an assault on all Jewish people and all people who believe in
and cherish freedom and oppose terrorism.
This type of terror is a devasting attempt to instill fear and silence us. But we will not be silenced! These
senseless deaths only increase our unwavering resolve to ensure that the lessons of the past are not
forgotten. Prejudice, extremism, and terror cannot be tolerated anywhere – – here on the streets of America
or elsewhere in the world.
The Holocaust did not begin with concentration camps. Nazism did not emerge from out of the blue, nor
did it begin with concentration camps or ghettos, or deportations. It started because of deep-seated
antisemitism and persecution of Jewish and other people and a society that allowed hate and prejudice to
be left unchecked.
May Yaron’s and Sarah’s memory be for a blessing, and may they rest in peace.
The Capital District Jewish Holocaust Memorial is a registered 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization dedicated to
building a permanent memorial in the New York State Capital that will honor the memory of ancestors of New
Yorkers, ensuring that the lessons of the Holocaust are not forgotten, educating students and the general public
about what can happen when hate and prejudice go unchecked, and connecting people with the lessons of history so
they will not be repeated.
Contact: Deborah Sturm Rausch
comms1@cdjhm.org
© Copyright 2025 CDJHM. All Rights Reserved.