U.S. Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., who fabricated claims that his grandparents were Holocaust survivors and reportedly made Hitler jokes on social media, gave a speech in Congress Friday marking Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Noting that “the 27th of January marks the anniversary of the Auschwitz concentration camp being liberated,” Santos said: “We must honor the victims and survivors. We must also pay tribute to the liberators who rescued millions of people.”
In fact, only about 7,000 people remained in Auschwitz when it was liberated by the Soviet army in 1945, and experts estimate that only several hundred thousand Jews were alive in Europe when the war ended.
In a floor speech minutes ago, Rep. George Santos spoke to recognize Holocaust Remembrance Day, including paying tribute to the purportedly Auschwitz-surviving grandmother of a staffer. Not mentioned: his own claims to be Jewish and that his grandparents are Holocaust refugees.
— Marc Rod (@marcrod97) January 27, 2023
Santos made the remarks about Holocaust Remembrance Day a day after Patch reported that his now-deleted social media posts included a shared photo of someone making a military salute with the caption “something like Hitler” and Santos’ comment: “hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh hiiiiiiiiiiiitlerrrrrrrrrrr (hight hitler) lolololololololololololol sombody kill her!! the jews and black mostly lolllolol!!! Dum.”
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