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[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1044 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1044

 Commemorating the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a 
Nazi concentration and extermination camp, honoring the victims of the 
 Holocaust, and expressing commitment to strengthen the fight against 
                        bigotry and intolerance.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 27, 2010

  Ms. Ros-Lehtinen (for herself, Mr. Pence, Mr. Klein of Florida, Mr. 
McCotter, Mr. Meek of Florida, Mr. Gallegly, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. 
 Burton of Indiana, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Manzullo, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. 
  Royce, and Mr. Mack) submitted the following resolution; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION

 
 Commemorating the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a 
Nazi concentration and extermination camp, honoring the victims of the 
 Holocaust, and expressing commitment to strengthen the fight against 
                        bigotry and intolerance.

Whereas during the Holocaust, an estimated 6,000,000 Jews and other targeted 
        groups were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators;
Whereas, on January 27, 1945, Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration and extermination 
        camp, was liberated by the Allied Forces;
Whereas Auschwitz, located in Poland, was the largest complex of the Nazi 
        concentration and extermination camps;
Whereas according to the Holocaust Memorial Museum, between 1940 and 1945, the 
        Nazis deported at a minimum 1,300,000 people to Auschwitz, and of these, 
        murdered 1,100,000;
Whereas an estimated 960,000 Jews were systematically murdered in Auschwitz 
        during the Holocaust;
Whereas Auschwitz was also used to murder Poles, Roma, Soviet Prisoners of War, 
        those helping to hide Jews and others the Nazis deemed inferior or that 
        held different political views;
Whereas victims of Auschwitz were systematically murdered in gas chambers and 
        many were starved to death, tortured, and subjected to forced labor and 
        criminal medical experiments;
Whereas the complex of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp has 
        come to symbolize the mass murder and inhumanity committed during the 
        Holocaust;
Whereas the famous ``Arbeit Macht Frei'' (Work Will Make You Free) sign over the 
        entrance to Auschwitz was stolen on December 18, 2009, and later 
        recovered and the Polish police arrested the alleged culprits behind the 
        theft;
Whereas according to the Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism Report released by 
        the Department of State's Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and 
        Combat Anti-Semitism, ``[o]ver the last decade, United States embassies 
        and consulates have reported an upsurge in anti-Semitism . . . and that 
        [a]nti-Semitic crimes range from acts of violence, including terrorist 
        attacks against Jews, to the desecration and destruction of Jewish 
        property . . .''; and
Whereas Holocaust education and efforts to bolster the fight against bigotry, 
        racism, intolerance, and anti-Semitism are necessary to ensure that the 
        atrocities witnessed by the world during the Holocaust are never 
        repeated: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) commemorates the 65th anniversary of the liberation of 
        Auschwitz;
            (2) honors the victims of Auschwitz and other Nazi 
        concentration and extermination camps, and all those who 
        perished at the hands of the Nazis;
            (3) expresses gratitude to the Allied soldiers, underground 
        fighters, and all those whose efforts helped defeat the Nazi 
        regime and liberate Auschwitz and other concentration and 
        extermination camps during World War II;
            (4) reaffirms its commitment to enhance Holocaust education 
        at home and abroad and to ensure that what happened in 
        Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration and extermination camps 
        is never allowed to happen again; and
            (5) urges all countries to enhance their efforts to combat 
        bigotry, racism, intolerance, and anti-Semitism.
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