When President Biden spoke yesterday in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building for the Holocaust Day of Remembrance, he invoked my father, his friend, Elie Wiesel.
I was seven years old, sitting on President Jimmy Carter’s lap, at the inaugural Day of Remembrance. It was 1979. My father stood where Biden stood yesterday and told our story: We had been rounded up and exiled to a kingdom of fire and ashes.
My father had asked upon their arrival to Auschwitz, "How could the...