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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 10, 2009		 CONTACT:  David Simon
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Congresswoman Brown Expresses Condolences to Those Grieving After Holocaust Museum Tragedy
 
(Washington, DC) - Congresswoman Corrine Brown expressed her heartfelt condolences for those affected by the senseless violence which occurred today at the National Holocaust Museum in Washington.  Her heart and prayers go out to the family of the wounded security guard, as well as to the Jewish community.  Since opening nearly two decades ago, the Holocaust museum has served as an extraordinarily important reminder of the potentially horrific affects of intolerance – racial, ethnic or religious.  Millions of visitors have toured the museum's exhibits, which document the extermination of six million Jews and millions of other people by Germany's Nazi regime during WWII.  The museum also has played an active role in documenting and decrying what it describes as more recent attempts at genocide, including Darfur, the former Yugoslavia and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. "My heart and prayers go out to the families affected by today's horrendous action.  It is simply tragic and outright ironic that a museum, whose goal is to 'stimulate leaders and citizens to confront hatred, prevent genocide, promote human dignity, as well as strengthen democracy,' was afflicted by this tragedy carried out by a White Supremacist," said Congresswoman Brown.

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