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2025 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 27
April 16, 2025 - Introduced by Senators CABRAL-GUEVARA, DASSLER-ALFHEIM,
JACQUE, JAGLER, MARKLEIN, NASS, RATCLIFF, ROYS and TOMCZYK,
cosponsored by Representatives PENTERMAN, TUSLER, SUBECK, BARE,
CALLAHAN, CLANCY, DESMIDT, DITTRICH, EMERSON, FRANKLIN, GUNDRUM,
HONG, KAUFERT, KNODL, KREIBICH, MADISON, MIRESSE, MOSES, MURPHY,
MURSAU, O'CONNOR, ORTIZ-VELEZ, PHELPS, RODRIGUEZ, SINICKI, SNODGRASS,
STEFFEN, STUBBS and UDELL. Referred to Committee on Senate Organization.
Relating to: proclaiming April 24, 2025, to be Holocaust Remembrance Day and
April 27, 2025, to May 4, 2025, as Holocaust Days of Remembrance in
Wisconsin.
Whereas, from 1933 to 1945, 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis and
their collaborators in the Holocaust as part of a systematic program of persecution
culminating in genocide, and millions of other people were targeted and killed; and
Whereas, Jews who fell under German control in Eastern and Central Europe
were quickly and cruelly stripped of their rights and property; and
Whereas, the Jews who were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators
comprised two-thirds of the European Jewish population, and in Poland, which
before the second World War included parts of modern-day Ukraine and Belarus,
the Jewish death toll was 90 percent; and
Whereas, the Holocaust represents a dark period in the history of civilization
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of mankind and must always be remembered in order to prevent its reoccurrence
and promote respect and common humanity; and
Whereas, Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates
the millions of Jewish victims of the Holocaust, was established by the Israeli
parliament, the Knesset, in 1951. It is observed on the 27th of Nisan in the Hebrew
calendar, which marks the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising; and
Whereas, the year 2025 marks the 80th Anniversary of the liberation of
Auschwitz-Birkenau; and
Whereas, remembrance ceremonies are held throughout the United States
and around the world to remember the tragedy of the Holocaust, including at the
Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., in the halls of the United Nations in New
York City, and here in Wisconsin; and
Whereas, following the recent acts of hatred and violence against the Jewish
Community, it is critical that we stand together to combat and educate about the
dangers of antisemitism and all forms of hate and bigotry in our communities and
across this State, so we ensure that suffering on the scale of the Holocaust truly
never does happen again; and
Whereas, knowing that the events and root causes of the Holocaust must not
be forgotten and that, particularly as survivors diminish in number, links must be
forged to educate future generations; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the Wisconsin
Legislature formally recognizes April 24, 2025, to be Holocaust Remembrance Day
and April 27, 2025, to May 4, 2025, as Holocaust Days of Remembrance in
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Wisconsin in order to raise public awareness about the Holocaust and its impact on
world history and our shared humanity.
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