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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 813 

Recognizing the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz 

concentration camp. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 27, 2020 

Ms. MENG (for herself, Mr. DEUTCH, Mr. ZELDIN, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. 

HIGGINS of New York, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. PAPPAS, 

Mr. ROSE of New York, Ms. NORTON, Mr. GARAMENDI, Ms. STEVENS, 

Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. GALLEGO, Mr. HASTINGS, Ms. CLARKE

of New York, Ms. WILD, Ms. PORTER, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. LARSEN of Washington, Mr. YARMUTH, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. VEASEY, Mr. 

WEBER of Texas, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. COX of California, Ms. 

BROWNLEY of California, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. 

CICILLINE, Mr. SUOZZI, Mr. CISNEROS, Mr. MORELLE, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. 

GABBARD, Mr. NADLER, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. TRONE, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. 

FOSTER, Mr. RUSH, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. SWALWELL of 

California, Mr. KHANNA, Ms. DEAN, Mr. COHEN, Mr. TED LIEU of California, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. COSTA, Mrs. LOWEY, Ms. OMAR, 

Miss RICE of New York, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. CLEAVER, 

Mr. DELGADO, Ms. SHALALA, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Mr. 

PAYNE, Mrs. MCBATH, Mrs. MURPHY of Florida, Ms. BONAMICI, Mrs. 

LEE of Nevada, Mr. GARCI ́A of Illinois, Ms. DAVIDS of Kansas, Mr. 

DIAZ-BALART, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Ms. 

MUCARSEL-POWELL, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. SOTO, Mr. CUELLAR, Ms. 

OCASIO-CORTEZ, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. KUSTOFF of Tennessee, 

Mrs. HAYES, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. SIRES, Mr. KEATING, Mr. 

CASE, Mr. ENGEL, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Mrs. AXNE, Mr. BRINDISI, Mr. 

HIMES, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. MALINOWSKI, Mr. CLAY, Ms. CRAIG, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mrs. TORRES of California, Ms. VELA ́ZQUEZ, Ms. FRANKEL, 

Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. PASCRELL, Mrs. LURIA, Mr. SMITH of 

Washington, Mr. STANTON, Ms. ADAMS, Mr. LEVIN of Michigan, Mr. 

JEFFRIES, Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York, and Ms. TLAIB) 

submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 

on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Natural Resources, and the Judiciary, 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 

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RESOLUTION 

Recognizing the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the 

Auschwitz concentration camp. 

Whereas, on January 27, 1945, Allied troops entered the 

Auschwitz complex concentration camp and liberated the 

more than 7,000 still-living prisoners; 

Whereas during World War II, the Nazi regime, its allies, 

and its collaborators systematically killed approximately 

6,000,000 Jews, including 1,500,000 million Jewish children, as well as millions of others including Roma, mentally or physically disabled people, gay men, political prisoners and resistance members, Poles and other Slavs, 

and Soviet prisoners of war; 

Whereas two-thirds of European Jewry and one-third of 

world Jewry were killed as a result of Nazi persecution 

during World War II; 

Whereas at least 1,300,000 people were deported to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945, approximately 1,100,000 of 

whom were murdered; 

Whereas thousands of prisoners at Auschwitz were selected 

by Josef Mengele and other Auschwitz physicians to be 

the victims of cruel and unethical medical experimentation; 

Whereas in the days leading up to the liberation of Auschwitz, tens of thousands of prisoners were forced to participate in so-called ‘‘death marches’’ from Auschwitz; 

Whereas the Nazis murdered their victims in Auschwitz by 

systematically using such methods as gas chambers, mass 

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jecting them to forced labor, and by denying them even 

the most basic medical treatment for disease or infection; 

Whereas according to The Conference on Jewish Material 

Claims Against Germany, there are over 80,000 Holocaust survivors living in the United States and over a 

third live below the poverty line; 

Whereas there has been an increase in the number and intensity of antisemitic incidents around the world and in the 

United States, including the single deadliest attack 

against the Jewish community in the history of the 

United States at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018 and a series of attacks against Jews 

across the country, which has increased feelings of vulnerability among Jewish communities; and 

Whereas antisemites in America and around the world continue to invoke Nazi ideology and use symbols such as 

the swastika and other fascist imagery to vandalize synagogues and Jewish institutions; Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) honors the memory of the liberation of 

3 Auschwitz; 

4 (2) memorializes the 6,000,000 Jewish victims 

5 of the Nazi regime, the millions of others who were 

6 systematically killed by the Nazis and their collabo7 rators during World War II, and the over 1,000,000 

8 victims at Auschwitz; 

9 (3) expresses gratitude to the members of the 

10 Allied forces who liberated Auschwitz and the U.S. 

11 Armed Forces and the forces of Allied nations who 

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1 risked their lives to liberate many other Nazi camps 

2 and sites of incarceration; 

3 (4) honors the survivors who have traveled 

4 around the world to share their personal and painful 

5 stories in order to ensure that the lessons of the 

6 Holocaust serve as a warning to future generations; 

7 (5) commemorates the role that Holocaust me8 morials like the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 

9 play in implementing educational lessons about the 

10 Holocaust, as well as the genocides that have come 

11 after, and about ways to prevent future genocides 

12 and other atrocities; 

13 (6) encourages Federal and local social services 

14 agencies to support Holocaust survivors who live in 

15 poverty; 

16 (7) reaffirms its support for educational efforts 

17 that teach current and future generations about the 

18 Holocaust; and 

19 (8) urges all Federal agencies, and the Amer20 ican people, to commit to addressing unchecked in21 tolerance and prejudice, including racial, ethnic, or 

22 religious biases in order to improve efforts to iden23 tify and combat antisemitism and other forms of 

24 bigotry and intolerance. 

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