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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. RES. 87
Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz
extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and International Holocaust
Remembrance Day.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY31, 2025
Ms. M
ENG(for herself, Mr. LAWLER, Ms. LOISFRANKELof Florida, and Mr.
B
ACON) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs
RESOLUTION
Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of
the Auschwitz extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Po-
land and International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Whereas United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/7
(2005) designated January 27 of each year as an Inter-
national Day of Commemoration in memory of victims of
the Holocaust;
Whereas, during World War II, the Nazi regime and its col-
laborators 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
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•HRES 87 IH
Birkenau, was the largest death camp complex estab-
lished 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, Je-
hovah’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 Hol-
ocaust to individuals from all walks of life in the United
States;
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•HRES 87 IH
Whereas the people of the United States must never forget
the genocide and terrible crimes against humanity com-
mitted 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, includ-
ing 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 sto-
ries;
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 his-
tory of the United States with the murder of 11 individ-
uals at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania; and
Whereas, especially in a period of rising anti-Semitism, com-
memoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermi-
nation 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
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•HRES 87 IH
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
(1) calls on all people of the United States to 2
remember the 1,100,000 innocent victims murdered 3
at the Auschwitz extermination camp as part of the 4
Holocaust, the 6,000,000 Jews killed during the 5
Holocaust, and all of the victims of the Nazi reign 6
of terror; 7
(2) honors the legacy of the survivors of the 8
Holocaust and of the Auschwitz extermination camp; 9
(3) calls on the people of the United States to 10
continue to work toward tolerance, peace, and jus-11
tice and to continue to work to end all genocide and 12
persecution; and 13
(4) recommits to combating all forms of anti- 14
Semitism. 15
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