Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HR0074 Compare Versions

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4	4	2 WHEREAS, The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored
5	5	3 persecution and murder of six million European Jews by the
6	6	4 Nazi German regime and its allies and collaborators between
7	7	5 1933 and 1945; and
8	8	6 WHEREAS, In addition to perpetrating the Holocaust, Nazi
9	9	7 Germany also persecuted and murdered millions of other victims
10	10	8 using similar forms of state-sponsored terror; and
11	11	9 WHEREAS, Antisemitism, the hatred of or prejudice against
12	12	10 Jews, was at the foundation of the Holocaust and was a core
13	13	11 tenet of Nazi ideology; and
14	14	12 WHEREAS, The persecution of Jews in Germany and
15	15	13 German-controlled areas evolved between 1933 and 1945,
16	16	14 becoming increasingly radical and culminating in the mass
17	17	15 murder of six million Jewish people; and
18	18	16 WHEREAS, During World War II, Nazi Germany and its allies
19	19	17 and collaborators killed nearly two out of every three
20	20	18 European Jews using deadly living conditions, brutal
21	21	19 mistreatment, mass shootings and gassings, and specially
22	22	20 designed killing centers; and
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31	31	1 WHEREAS, Prior to the formal development of a campaign of
32	32	2 mass murder, Jews in Germany and German-controlled and aligned
33	33	3 territories faced persecution in various forms, including
34	34	4 public identification and exclusion, legal discrimination
35	35	5 through antisemitic laws, organized violence, physical
36	36	6 displacement, internment, theft, and forced labor; and
37	37	7 WHEREAS, Beginning in 1939, Nazi officials created ghettos
38	38	8 in cities and towns where Jewish people were isolated, forced
39	39	9 to live, and coerced to perform forced labor; thousands of
40	40	10 Jewish people living in ghettos died as a result of
41	41	11 starvation, rampant disease due to unsanitary conditions,
42	42	12 extreme temperatures, and exhaustion from forced labor; and
43	43	13 WHEREAS, In 1941, Nazi leaders began the last stage of the
44	44	14 Holocaust, a mass murder campaign involving mass shootings as
45	45	15 well as gassings at specially designed killing centers that
46	46	16 became known as extermination camps or death camps; the
47	47	17 majority of Jews who had been forced to live in ghettos were
48	48	18 murdered in mass shootings or after being forcibly relocated
49	49	19 to extermination centers; and
50	50	20 WHEREAS, The Holocaust ended in 1945 when the major Allied
51	51	21 Powers, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United
52	52	22 States, defeated Nazi Germany and its allies, moving across
53	53	23 Europe and liberating survivors from concentration camps; and
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64	64	1 WHEREAS, In 2005, the United Nations adopted Resolution
65	65	2 60/7, designating January 27 as International Holocaust
66	66	3 Remembrance Day to mark the anniversary of the liberation of
67	67	4 the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and extermination
68	68	5 center and to honor the six million Jewish victims of the
69	69	6 Holocaust and the millions of other victims of Nazism; and
70	70	7 WHEREAS, The year 2025 marks 80 years since the end of
71	71	8 World War II and the Holocaust, and the United Nations
72	72	9 Outreach Programme chose "Holocaust remembrance and education
73	73	10 for dignity and human rights" as its guiding theme for this
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75	75	12 WHEREAS, The Holocaust shows what happens when hatred,
76	76	13 dehumanization, and apathy are allowed to destroy individual
77	77	14 dignity and human rights; and
78	78	15 WHEREAS, Holocaust remembrance safeguards the memories of
79	79	16 survivors and their testament of life before the Holocaust of
80	80	17 vibrant communities, traditions, hopes, dreams, and loved ones
81	81	18 who did not survive while recognizing the humanity and dignity
82	82	19 of the Jewish people and others who the Nazis and their
83	83	20 collaborators sought to destroy; and
84	84	21 WHEREAS, Holocaust remembrance is a bulwark against the
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95	95	1 denigration of humanity and a clarion call for action to
96	96	2 ensure respect for dignity and human rights; and
97	97	3 WHEREAS, Holocaust remembrance is a victory against the
98	98	4 Nazis and their collaborators and against all who would try to
99	99	5 continue their legacy through spreading hatred and Holocaust
100	100	6 distortion and denial into the 21st century; and
101	101	7 WHEREAS, In the spirit of remembrance and education,
102	102	8 Illinois became the first state in the United States to
103	103	9 require that public elementary schools and high schools
104	104	10 include Holocaust history and other cases of genocide in
105	105	11 school curriculum; therefore, be it
106	106	12 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
107	107	13 HUNDRED FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
108	108	14 we honor the memory of the Jewish people who were victims of
109	109	15 the Holocaust and recognize the bravery of survivors who have
110	110	16 shared their stories with the world; and be it further
111	111	17 RESOLVED, That we honor the memory of the millions of
112	112	18 additional people, including prisoners of war, ethnic Poles,
113	113	19 Romani people, Serbian civilians, people with disabilities,
114	114	20 political opponents and dissenters, people labeled as asocial,
115	115	21 Jehovah's Witnesses, gay, bisexual, and transgender people,
116	116	22 and Black Germans, who were persecuted and murdered by the
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127	127	1 Nazi state and their collaborators; and be it further
128	128	2 RESOLVED, That we express gratitude for the soldiers,
129	129	3 resistance fighters, and all those who helped defeat the Nazi
130	130	4 regime and end the Holocaust; and be it further
131	131	5 RESOLVED, That we express gratitude for the American
132	132	6 soldiers who fought around the world during World War II,
133	133	7 including the over 980,000 men and women from Illinois who
134	134	8 served in the U.S. Armed Forces and the approximately 22,000
135	135	9 who gave their lives in pursuit of liberty; and be it further
136	136	10 RESOLVED, That we express gratitude for the American
137	137	11 forces that liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp on
138	138	12 April 11, 1945, and who would go on that month to liberate
139	139	13 concentration camps at Dachau, Dora-Mittelbau, and Flossenburg
140	140	14 before liberating Mauthausen in early May 1945; and be it
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142	142	16 RESOLVED, That we urge all Illinoisans to commit to
143	143	17 learning about the Holocaust in order to ensure that such
144	144	18 atrocities are never perpetrated again; and be it further
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