119-hres87

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 87 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
H. RES. 87

 Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz 
extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and International Holocaust 
 Remembrance Day.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 January 31, 2025

Ms. Meng (for herself, Mr. Lawler, Ms. Lois Frankel of Florida, and Mr. 
 Bacon) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Foreign Affairs

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 RESOLUTION

 Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz 
extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and International Holocaust 
 Remembrance Day.

Whereas United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/7

    (2005) designated 
 January 27 of each year as an International Day of Commemoration in 
 memory of victims of the Holocaust;
Whereas, during World War II, the Nazi regime and its collaborators 
 systematically murdered 6,000,000 Jews and millions of other 
 individuals;
Whereas the Auschwitz extermination camp complex in Nazi-occupied Poland, which 
 included a killing center at Birkenau, was the largest death camp 
 complex established by the Nazi regime;
Whereas, on January 27, 1945, the Auschwitz extermination camp was liberated by 
 Allied Forces, after almost 5 years of murder, rape, and torture at the 
 camp;
Whereas nearly 1,300,000 innocent civilians were deported to Auschwitz from 
 their homes across Eastern and Western Europe, particularly from 
 Hungary, Poland, and France;
Whereas nearly 1,100,000 innocent civilians were murdered at the Auschwitz 
 extermination camp between 1940 and 1945;
Whereas at least 960,000 of the nearly 1,100,000 murdered people were Jewish;
Whereas the more than 100,000 other victims who perished at Auschwitz included 
 non-Jewish Poles, Romani people, Soviet civilians and prisoners of war, 
 Afro-Germans, Jehovah's Witnesses, people with disabilities, gay men and 
 women, and other ethnic minorities;
Whereas these innocent civilians were subjected to torture, forced labor, 
 starvation, rape, medical experiments, and separation from loved ones;
Whereas the names of many of these innocent individuals who perished have been 
 lost forever;
Whereas the Auschwitz extermination camp symbolizes the extraordinary brutality 
 of the Holocaust;
Whereas the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum serves as our Nation's 
 memorial to the victims of the Holocaust and teaches the history and 
 lessons of the Holocaust to individuals from all walks of life in the 
 United States;
Whereas the people of the United States must never forget the genocide and 
 terrible crimes against humanity committed at the Auschwitz 
 extermination camp;
Whereas the people of the United States must educate future generations to 
 promote understanding of the dangers of intolerance in order to prevent 
 similar injustices, including acts of violent anti-Semitism, from 
 happening again;
Whereas there are only approximately 220,000 Holocaust survivors who are still 
 living and it is more important now than ever to share their collective 
 histories and stories;
Whereas, in recent years, there has been an increase in the number and intensity 
 of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States and around the world;
Whereas, since the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, there have 
 been more than 10,000 anti-Semitic incidents in the United States;
Whereas hate crime statistics collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
 demonstrate a 63-percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the 
 United States from 2022 to 2023;
Whereas, in 2018, the United States experienced the single deadliest attack 
 against the Jewish community in the history of the United States with 
 the murder of 11 individuals at the Tree of Life synagogue in 
 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and
Whereas, especially in a period of rising anti-Semitism, commemoration of the 
 liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp will instill in all 
 people of the United States a greater awareness of the Holocaust and 
 knowledge of the horrors brought upon by the systematic murder of 
 6,000,000 Jews and millions of other innocent individuals by the Nazi 
 regime: Now, therefore, be it
 Resolved, That the House of Representatives--

    (1) calls on all people of the United States to remember 
 the 1,100,000 innocent victims murdered at the Auschwitz 
 extermination camp as part of the Holocaust, the 6,000,000 Jews 
 killed during the Holocaust, and all of the victims of the Nazi 
 reign of terror;

    (2) honors the legacy of the survivors of the Holocaust and 
 of the Auschwitz extermination camp;

    (3) calls on the people of the United States to continue to 
 work toward tolerance, peace, and justice and to continue to 
 work to end all genocide and persecution; and

    (4) recommits to combating all forms of anti-Semitism.
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