IV 
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 Holo-
caust, 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 res-
olution; 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 ex-
pressing commitment to strengthen the fight against big-
otry 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 concentra-
tion and extermination camp, was liberated by the Allied 
Forces; 
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•HRES 1044 IH 
Whereas Auschwitz, located in Poland, was the largest com-
plex of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps; 
Whereas according to the Holocaust Memorial Museum, be-
tween 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, tor-
tured, and subjected to forced labor and criminal medical 
experiments; 
Whereas the complex of the Auschwitz concentration and ex-
termination camp has come to symbolize the mass mur-
der 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 Pol-
ish police arrested the alleged culprits behind the theft; 
Whereas according to the Contemporary Global Anti-Semi-
tism Report released by the Department of State’s Office 
of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semi-
tism, ‘‘[o]ver the last decade, United States embassies 
and consulates have reported an upsurge in anti-Semi-
tism . . . and that [a]nti-Semitic crimes range from acts 
of violence, including terrorist attacks against Jews, to 
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•HRES 1044 IH 
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 Ausch-
witz and other concentration and extermination 
camps during World War II; 
(4) reaffirms its commitment to enhance Holo-
caust education at home and abroad and to ensure 
that what happened in Auschwitz and other Nazi 
concentration and extermination camps is never al-
lowed to happen again; and 
(5) urges all countries to enhance their efforts 
to combat bigotry, racism, intolerance, and anti- 
Semitism. 
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