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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 49 

Honoring the victims of the Holocaust, commending countries and organizations for marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, 

and expressing the commitment of the House of Representatives to 

strengthen the fight against anti-Semitism, bigotry, and intolerance. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 26, 2015 

Mr. DEUTCH (for himself, Mr. ENGEL, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. 

ROSKAM, and Mr. ISRAEL) submitted the following resolution; which was 

referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the 

Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 

as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

RESOLUTION 

Honoring the victims of the Holocaust, commending countries and organizations for marking the 70th anniversary 

of the liberation of Auschwitz, and expressing the commitment of the House of Representatives to strengthen 

the fight against anti-Semitism, bigotry, and intolerance. 

Whereas, during World War II, the Nazi regime and its collaborators systematically murdered 6,000,000 Jews and 

millions of other individuals; 

Whereas more than 60 percent of the Jewish population in 

Europe before World War II was murdered by Nazi Germany and its collaborators; 


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Whereas the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, which 

included a killing center at Birkenau, was the largest 

camp complex established by the Nazi regime; 

Whereas, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial 

Museum, at least 1,300,000 people were deported to 

Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945, of whom 1,100,000 

were murdered; 

Whereas at least 960,000 of the 1,100,000 murdered people 

were Jewish; 

Whereas the Nazi SS also deported to Auschwitz hundreds of 

thousands of people whom the German Security Police 

deemed to be inferior, dangerous, or undesirable, including Roma and Sinti, people with disabilities, Poles, Soviet 

civilians and prisoners of war, Afro-Germans, Jehovah’s 

Witnesses, homosexuals, and other groups; 

Whereas the Nazis murdered their victims by systematically 

using such methods as mass executions, hanging, gas 

chambers, starvation, and torture, by subjecting them to 

forced labor and unethical medical experimentation, and 

by denying them even the most basic medical treatment 

for disease or infection; 

Whereas, on January 27, 1945, the Nazi concentration camp 

complex at Auschwitz, including Birkenau, was liberated 

by the Soviet army; 

Whereas, on November 1, 2005, the United Nations General 

Assembly passed Resolution 60/7, which designated January 27th, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, 

as annual International Day of Commemoration, and 

which called on the world to remember the Holocaust and 

honor the victims of the Holocaust era; 


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Whereas many countries around the world mark respective 

national Holocaust remembrance days on January 27, including Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Sweden, and the United Kingdom; 

Whereas there has been an increase in the number and intensity of anti-Semitic incidents around the world, and Jewish communities are feeling vulnerable in the face of 

growing anti-Jewish hostility and experiencing targeted, 

and sometimes deadly, attacks; and 

Whereas the United States Department of State expressed its 

concern for the rise in anti-Semitism in Europe and 

around the world and referenced numerous polls offering 

evidence to the claims: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) memorializes the liberation of Auschwitz; 

3 (2) honors the victims of Auschwitz and other 

4 Nazi concentration camps and killing centers, and 

5 all other victims of Nazi crimes and aggression; 

6 (3) honors the efforts of the United States 

7 Armed Forces, the armed forces of Allied nations, 

8 underground resistance fighters, and other persons 

9 who helped defeat the Nazi regime during World 

10 War II and liberate Auschwitz and other Nazi 

11 camps; 

12 (4) expresses gratitude to those persons and en13 tities hosting and participating in events commemo14 rating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of 

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1 dential delegation attending an event in Oswiecim, 

2 Poland; 

3 (5) reaffirms its support for educational efforts 

4 to teach current and future generations about the 

5 Holocaust, to preserve the memory of those mur6 dered, and to prevent any future genocide; and 

7 (6) urges all countries to implement educational 

8 lessons about the Holocaust to explain how un9 checked intolerance and prejudice, including racial, 

10 ethnic, or religious biases, has led to, and could in 

11 the future lead to, atrocities as happened during the 

12 Holocaust, and to improve efforts to identify and 

13 combat anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry 

14 and intolerance. 

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