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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. 

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 

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; 


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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 


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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 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) commemorates the 65th anniversary of the 

3 liberation of Auschwitz; 

4 (2) honors the victims of Auschwitz and other 

5 Nazi concentration and extermination camps, and all 

6 those who perished at the hands of the Nazis; 

7 (3) expresses gratitude to the Allied soldiers, 

8 underground fighters, and all those whose efforts 

9 helped defeat the Nazi regime and liberate Ausch10 witz and other concentration and extermination 

11 camps during World War II; 

12 (4) reaffirms its commitment to enhance Holo13 caust education at home and abroad and to ensure 

14 that what happened in Auschwitz and other Nazi 

15 concentration and extermination camps is never al16 lowed to happen again; and 

17 (5) urges all countries to enhance their efforts 

18 to combat bigotry, racism, intolerance, and anti19 Semitism. 

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