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113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 458 

Recognizing May as Jewish American Heritage Month and honoring 

Holocaust survivors and their contributions to the United States of America. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 22, 2014 

Mr. CARDIN (for himself, Mr. KIRK, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. BROWN, Mr. BOOKER, 

Mr. MENENDEZ, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. NELSON, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, and 

Mr. PORTMAN) submitted the following resolution; which was considered 

and agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

Recognizing May as Jewish American Heritage Month and 

honoring Holocaust survivors and their contributions to 

the United States of America. 

Whereas in May of each year, people across the United 

States recognize and celebrate over 350 years of Jewish 

contributions to the United States through Jewish American Heritage Month; 

Whereas during the Holocaust, the Nazi regime murdered approximately 6,000,000 Jews, in addition to millions of 

non-Jews, between 1933 and 1945; 

Whereas the Nazi regime also imprisoned, persecuted, and 

tortured hundreds of thousands of Jewish victims who 

nonetheless survived; 


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Whereas the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Holocaust Encyclopedia estimates that more than 

200,000 persecuted Jews found refuge in the United 

States between 1933 and 1945, and that approximately 

137,000 Jewish refugees settled in the United States 

after World War II in the years between 1945 and 1952; 

Whereas in subsequent decades, Jewish refugees continued to 

immigrate to the United States from Europe, the Middle 

East, and the former Soviet Union; 

Whereas many survivors of the Holocaust have dedicated 

their lives to educating future generations about the dangers of bigotry and anti-Semitism and the resiliency of 

the human spirit; and 

Whereas countless survivors of the Holocaust living in the 

United States have made numerous and substantial contributions to society in the areas of the humanities, 

science, government, law, history, medicine, military service, philosophy, social justice, technology, and more, including— 

(1) a Marylander who bravely led the decades-long 

fight for reparations from the French rail companies that 

transported victims to Nazi concentration camps and killing centers; 

(2) a former judge on the International Court of 

Justice and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 

who was a member of the United Nations Human Rights 

Committee, and who is currently a professor specializing 

in international justice at The George Washington University Law School; 

(3) a native of France who survived a series of Nazi 

concentration camps and became a well-known author, 


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lecturer, and actor who appeared as Corporal Louis 

LeBeau on the 1960s television series Hogan’s Heroes; 

(4) a native of Poland who spent his childhood in a 

Nazi labor camp, was educated in the United States, and 

became a renowned chemist, author, professor, and poet, 

winning the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; 

(5) a former Member of the House of Representatives and Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign 

Affairs, and founder of the Congressional Human Rights 

Caucus, who, along with his wife and fellow survivor, devoted his life to championing human rights and freedom 

around the world; 

(6) a Polish-born author, historian, educator, member of the United States Holocaust Commission, and recipient of the 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom; 

(7) an Austrian native, literary scholar, and professor who authored a 1992 autobiography, Still Alive: A 

Holocaust Girlhood Remembered, and numerous scholarly 

publications on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism; 

(8) a Croatian-born survivor who helped produce the 

movie Schindler’s List and became an advisor to the USC 

Shoah Foundation, an archive of testimonies of genocide 

survivors chaired by Steven Spielberg; 

(9) an Illinoisan who created the International Monetary Market, served as chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and revolutionized markets by creating 

financial futures after fleeing Holocaust-era Poland as a 

child; 

(10) a Hungarian survivor who served in the United 

States Army in the Korean War and who was awarded 

the Medal of Honor in 2005 for his heroic actions while 

being held in a Chinese POW camp that saved the lives 

of at least 40 fellow soldiers; 


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(11) a native of Germany who escaped Nazi Germany as a teenager, served as a corporal in the United 

States Army, was an interpreter and analyst during the 

Nuremberg Trials, served in the Foreign Service of the 

Department of State, and authored a book about a Jewish resistor who assassinated a Nazi official and another 

about Allied intelligence near the end of World War II; 

(12) a world-renowned psychosexual therapist, radio 

and television personality, professor, and author who escaped Nazi Germany as a child and fought in the Israeli 

War of Independence; and 

(13) the winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, an 

author, professor, and activist, whose memoir Night is an 

internationally acclaimed account of the terrors of the 

Holocaust: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) recognizes May 2014 as Jewish American 

3 Heritage Month; 

4 (2) expresses appreciation for the substantial 

5 and varied contributions made to the United States 

6 by the survivors of the Holocaust; 

7 (3) encourages the people of the United States 

8 to learn about the efforts and achievements of Holo9 caust survivors who immigrated to the United States 

10 in the years following World War II; 

11 (4) expresses admiration for the more than 

12 100,000 Holocaust survivors living in the United 

13 States who continue to bear witness to their per14 sonal stories and educate the world; and 


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1 (5) understands the hardships Holocaust sur2 vivors have endured, and supports their desire to age 

3 with dignity and comfort in their homes and commu4 nities. 

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