Washington, DC - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday met with a group of forty Holocaust survivors from the New York Association of Holocaust Survivors in Washington DC. The members of the Association were in the Nation's Capital to visit the Holocaust Museum among other events.

"I was very pleased to have the opportunity to welcome this group of brave and inspiring people to Washington," Senator Clinton said. "We must always remember those who were so brutally murdered during the Holocaust - six million men, women, and children - and I was honored to meet these survivors."

The New York Association of Holocaust Survivors is a non-profit organization that was established in 1993 in Brooklyn, New York to provide the necessary assistance to Holocaust Survivors from the former Soviet Union. The organization has seven hundred and fifty members. Every year the organization plans a ceremonial event in memory of the Holocaust, with their trip to Washington being their honorary event for this year. The majority of these survivors and their families are originally from Russian-speaking countries and now reside in New York City.

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