CANDLES Museum condemns social media post by Indiana representative

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

TERRE HAUTE — CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center has condemned a quote and link posted by Jim Lucas, Republican member of the Indiana House of Representatives.

Lucas quoted Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda for the German Third Reich under Adolf Hitler, and included a link to a site with Goebbels’ name and “The Jewish Question.”

“We are shocked and horrified that an Indiana lawmaker would make such a statement about Hitler’s chief architect and purveyor of hate speech, ultimately leading to the murder of over six million Jews in the Holocaust,” CANDLES Executive Director Troy Fears said. “Hate propaganda was the driving force behind the Holocaust, and these seeds of hate have been, and are being planted, today in the United States.

Jim Lucas

“We urge Todd Huston, Indiana House speaker, to condemn Representative Lucas’s actions, and we call on others to speak out as we are doing against these seeds of hate,” Fears added.

CANDLES officials encourage all Hoosiers to learn more about the Holocaust and the antisemitic rhetoric through these websites: https://candlesholocaustmuseum.org/, https://tinyurl.com/r8588jht, https://tinyurl.com/55spf4cw.

“Eva Kor, our museum’s founder and Holocaust survivor, would want us to turn to peace, kindness and understanding and educate ourselves so we can be a light in the darkness,” Fears concluded.

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