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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 35 

Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz 

extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JANUARY 22, 2015 

Ms. MIKULSKI (for herself, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. KIRK, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mrs. 

BOXER, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mr. BROWN, Mr. RISCH, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. 

ROUNDS, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. COONS, Mr. MORAN, Mr. HATCH, Mr. 

WYDEN, Mr. NELSON, Mr. SCHATZ, Mr. MERKLEY, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. 

KAINE, Mr. CRUZ, Mr. MURPHY, and Ms. BALDWIN) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

JANUARY 28, 2015 

Reported by Mr. CORKER, with an amendment 

JANUARY 30, 2015 

Considered, amended, and agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of 

the Auschwitz extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. 

Whereas, on January 27, 1945, the Auschwitz extermination 

camp in Nazi-occupied Poland was liberated by Allied 

Forces during World War II after almost 5 years of murder, rape, and torture at the camp; 

Whereas 1,100,000 innocent civilians were murdered at the 

Auschwitz extermination camp; 

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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 1,000,000 of the civilians who perished at the camp 

were Jews, along with 100,000 non-Jewish Poles, Roma 

and Sinti individuals, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah’s 

Witnesses, gay men and women, and other ethnic minorities; 

Whereas these civilians included farmers, tailors, seamstresses, factory hands, accountants, doctors, teachers, smallbusiness owners, clergy, intellectuals, government officials, and political activists; 

Whereas these civilians were subjected to torture, forced 

labor, starvation, rape, medical experiments, and being 

separated from loved ones; 

Whereas the names of many of these civilians who perished 

have been lost forever; 

Whereas the Auschwitz extermination camp symbolizes the 

extraordinary brutality of the Holocaust; 

Whereas the people of the United States must never forget 

the terrible crimes against humanity committed 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 from 

happening again; and 

Whereas commemoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz 

extermination camp will instill in all people of the United 

States a greater awareness of the Holocaust: Now, therefore, be it 

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1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) commemorates January 27, 2015, as the 

3 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz 

4 extermination camp by Allied Forces during World 

5 War II; 

6 (2) calls on all people of the United States to 

7 remember the 1,100,000 innocent victims murdered 

8 at the Auschwitz extermination camp as part of the 

9 Holocaust; 

10 (3) honors the legacy of the survivors of the 

11 Holocaust and of the Auschwitz extermination camp; 

12 and 

13 (4) calls on the people of the United States to 

14 continue to work toward tolerance, peace, and jus15 tice and to continue to work to end all genocide and 

16 persecution. 

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