Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz was one of four senators announcing the introduction of a bill to make it easier to make claims to recover artwork seized by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

“The phrase ‘never forget’ is more than a slogan,” the Texas senator said in a statement. “‘Never forget’ means working to right all the terrible injustices of the Holocaust, even if many decades have passed.”

The introduction of the bill, which would establish a new six-year statute of limitations for claims regarding artwork stolen by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945, came barely an hour before Cruz was scheduled to tour a Matzah bakery in Brooklyn.

The GOP candidate who once spoke of “New York values” in the pejorative, is now courting votes in the Big Apple ahead of the April 19 New York primary.

Cruz’s senior colleague from Texas, Majority Whip John Cornyn formally introduced the bill, joined in the bipartisan effort by Brooklyn’s own Democratic Sen. Charles E. Schumer and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.