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Proclamation 10889 of January 27, 2025 

National Day of Remembrance of the 80th Anniversary of the 

Liberation of Auschwitz, 2025 

By the President of the United States of America 

A Proclamation 

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, 

the Nazi concentration camp in Poland that stood at the center of the 

Holocaust and focus for their systematic slaughter of the Jewish people. 

Between 1940 and 1945, more than one million Jews, religious leaders, 

disabled persons, and other innocent victims were viciously and mercilessly 

executed in Auschwitz at the hands of the evil Nazi regime—culminating 

in one of the darkest chapters in human history. On this solemn day, 

America joins the Jewish community, the people of Poland, and the entire 

world in mourning the lives lost, the souls battered, the heroes forgotten, 

and the countless men and women who gave their lives for the cause 

of freedom. 

Over those 5 gruesome years at Auschwitz, mothers and fathers lost their 

children, daughters and sons lost their parents, and wives and husbands 

lost their soulmates to the deadly scourge of anti-Semitism—leaving an 

unfillable void in their hearts. To those who lost family members and 

loved ones, we pray that Almighty God will grant you comfort and strength. 

To those who survived the atrocities at Auschwitz, we honor your courage, 

we salute your sacrifice, and we offer you our enduring love and unceasing 

gratitude. And to every person touched by the calamities of the Holocaust, 

we give you our unwavering devotion and eternal promise to never forget 

the evils that took place during that dark time in history. 

Sadly, despite decades of wisdom shared by survivors, years of reflection 

on the depravities committed, and decades of progress towards peace, the 

poison of anti-Semitism still courses through the veins of cowards in dark 

corners of the world. So today, we renew our promise that anti-Semitism 

has no place in a civilized society, no place in our foreign policy, and 

no place in the United States of America. 

In the years since the liberation of Auschwitz on this day eight decades 

ago, the grave offenses that took place during the Holocaust and the cries 

of the Jewish people have echoed throughout the halls of history. In the 

wake of the oppression, persecution, and injustice committed at Auschwitz 

and elsewhere in Europe, the Jewish people gallantly persevered to refound their homeland in the modern State of Israel—our mighty friend. 

To this day, the Jewish people proudly represent the peak of human tenacity 

and the pinnacle of human triumph. 

As we commemorate this somber occasion, we pay tribute to the undying 

spirit of the Jewish community. We reaffirm our commitment to educating 

our children and every future generation about the horrors that took place 

within the confines of Auschwitz and other concentration and death camps. 

We renew our resolve to end anti-Semitism and religious bigotry of all 

forms. We proudly reassert our strong bonds of friendship with the State 

of Israel. And we declare the timeless truth that every human being is 

a child of God and inherently worthy of dignity and respect. 


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8756 Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 21 / Monday, February 3, 2025 / Presidential Documents 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States 

of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution 

and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 27, 2025, 

as a National Day of Remembrance of the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation 

of Auschwitz. On this day, I call upon every American citizen to observe 

this day with programs, ceremonies, and prayers commemorating the victims 

of the Holocaust and honoring the sacrifices of the men and women who 

helped liberate the victims of the Nazis at Auschwitz. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-seventh 

day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and 

of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred 

and forty-ninth. 

[FR Doc. 2025–02177 

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