"On today's show, I said the Holocaust 'is not about race, but about man's inhumanity to man.' I should have said it is about both," she tweeted Monday. "As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, 'The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish people – who they deemed to be an inferior race.' I stand corrected.
"The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver. I’m sorry for the hurt I have caused. Written with my sincerest apologies, Whoopi Goldberg."
The show's hosts earlier in the day were discussing the banning by a Tennessee school board of the Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel "Maus," which is about the World War II Nazi concentration camps.
