The Seattle Times | January 21, 2021 | By Nina Shapiro
Dee Simon, executive director of the Holocaust Center for Humanity in Seattle, also applauded Biden’s call for unity, as well as what she called his focus on personal responsibility. She repeated the words Biden used, as he quoted President Lincoln: “My whole soul is in this.”
“It was exactly what we needed to hear,” she said, and a lesson from the Holocaust . “Each person could have made a difference,” and many did, including those who risked their lives to rescue Jewish people and others targeted by the Nazis.