IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 19 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the people of the United States should 
observe the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a Nazi 
death camp during World War II, and honor all the victims of the 
Holocaust, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 20, 2005 
Mr. TANCREDO (for himself, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. CANTOR, Mr. WEXLER, Ms. 
ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey, Mr. 
PENCE, and Mr. FOSSELLA) submitted the following concurrent resolu-
tion; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the people of the 
United States should observe the 60th anniversary of 
the liberation of Auschwitz, a Nazi death camp during 
World War II, and honor all the victims of the Holo-
caust, and for other purposes. 
Whereas Auschwitz, a death camp, was established by the 
Nazis in 1940 in Poland, which was occupied by the Ger-
mans during World War II; 
Whereas Auschwitz has become a notorious symbol of terror, 
genocide, and the Holocaust throughout the world;
•HCON 19 IH 
Whereas initially Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Gypsies, and 
prisoners of other nationalities were incarcerated at 
Auschwitz; 
Whereas beginning in 1942, Auschwitz became the site of the 
greatest mass murder in the history of humanity, which 
was committed against the Jews as part of Nazi leader 
Adolf Hitler’s plan for the complete genocide of the Jew-
ish people; 
Whereas countless Jewish men, women, and children de-
ported to Auschwitz were sent to their deaths in the 
Birkenau gas chambers immediately after arrival while 
others were forced to endure inhumane conditions as they 
awaited their eventual fate; 
Whereas near the end of World War II, in an effort to re-
move the traces of the crimes they had committed, the 
Nazis attempted to dismantle gas chambers, crematoria, 
and other buildings, and burn documents relating to 
those crimes, while prisoners capable of walking were 
forcibly marched into the interior of the Reich; 
Whereas on January 27, 1945, Allied soldiers liberated the 
camp and the remaining prisoners left in Auschwitz; 
Whereas recent polls suggest an appalling lack of knowledge 
worldwide about the circumstances surrounding the Holo-
caust; and 
Whereas public officials, teachers, parents, and others must 
take great care to ensure that young people learn about 
this brutal chapter in human history to guarantee that 
future generations will never permit the grisly scene that 
Allied soldiers uncovered in January of 1945 at Ausch-
witz to be replicated: Now, therefore, be it
•HCON 19 IH 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the people of the United States should ob-
serve the 60th anniversary of the liberation of 
Auschwitz, a Nazi death camp during World War II, 
and honor all of the victims of the Holocaust; 
(2) the American people should express their 
gratitude to the Allied soldiers whose service and 
sacrifice helped to defeat Adolf Hitler and destroy 
the genocidal machinery the Nazi regime had set in 
motion; and 
(3) teachers throughout the United States 
should educate their students about what happened 
at Auschwitz and stress the importance of the collec-
tive responsibility of humanity to ensure that what 
happened at Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps 
is never allowed to happen again. 
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