IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 57 
Urging the Secretary of State that in 2015, a year of significant anniversaries 
for the Jewish people, United States embassies in appropriate countries 
should commemorate this anniversary year with significant public events 
including the message that the opportunities for remembrance and reflec-
tion contained in these anniversaries are applicable to all peoples. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 27, 2015 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. COHEN, Mr. ADERHOLT, Mr. 
LIPINSKI, Mr. MEADOWS, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. RANGEL, and Ms. MENG) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Urging the Secretary of State that in 2015, a year of signifi-
cant anniversaries for the Jewish people, United States 
embassies in appropriate countries should commemorate 
this anniversary year with significant public events in-
cluding the message that the opportunities for remem-
brance and reflection contained in these anniversaries 
are applicable to all peoples. 
Whereas 2015 will be the 80th anniversary of the promulga-
tion of the Nuremberg laws, which on September 15, 
1935, deprived Jews and other ‘‘non-Aryans’’ of German 
citizenship and discriminated against them in other ways; 
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Whereas the Nuremberg laws are remembered as infamous 
exercises of anti-Semitism and racism as official state 
policy; 
Whereas 2015 will be the 70th anniversary of the end of the 
Holocaust, and more specifically the liberation of Ausch-
witz, which on January 27, 1945, was liberated by Soviet 
troops who encountered approximately 7,500 living pris-
oners; 
Whereas the liberation of Auschwitz has come to symbolize 
the end of the Holocaust, as this was the place where at 
least 1,100,000 people, approximately 90 percent of 
whom were Jewish, were murdered as a matter of official 
state policy of Nazi Germany; 
Whereas 2015 will mark the 50th anniversary of the estab-
lishment of diplomatic relations between the State of 
Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany, which oc-
curred on May 12, 1965; 
Whereas in establishing diplomatic relations Israel and Ger-
many, in a spirit of goodwill and shared democracy and 
common values, overcame the painful memories of the 
Holocaust and deepened their reconciliation; 
Whereas 2015 will be the 50th anniversary of the proclama-
tion of Nostra Aetate (‘‘In Our Time’’), the Declaration 
on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Reli-
gions, in which on October 28, 1965, Pope Paul VI made 
an authoritative declaration on Catholic-Jewish relations 
and also on Catholic-interfaith relations; 
Whereas Nostra Aetate condemned anti-Semitism, opened the 
doors for Catholic-Jewish dialogue and cooperation, has 
been widely credited as contributing greatly to reversing 
centuries of misunderstanding between Christians and 
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Jews, and has been a touchstone statement on mutual re-
spect for all religions; 
Whereas these anniversaries will be widely observed and occa-
sions for reflection by many people in 2015; and 
Whereas the lessons contained in the anniversaries are appli-
cable beyond those nations and faiths involved in the 
events they mark: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) urges the Administration to continue efforts 
to combat anti-Semitism globally and issue public 
statements and hold appropriate public events that 
reflect on the significant anniversaries of 2015, 
which are important to the Jewish people and are 
applicable to all peoples everywhere; 
(2) urges the Secretary of State that in 2015, 
a year of significant anniversaries for the Jewish 
people, United States embassies in appropriate coun-
tries should observe these anniversaries with signifi-
cant public events and statements; 
(3) further urges the Secretary of State that in 
2015 the United States Mission to the United Na-
tions and the United States Mission to the Organi-
zation for Security and Cooperation in Europe 
should observe these anniversaries with similar pub-
lic events and statements; 
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(4) calls on the Broadcasting Board of Gov-
ernors (BBG) to observe these anniversaries with 
significant programming including the message that 
the opportunities for remembrance and reflection 
contained in these anniversaries are applicable to all 
peoples, such as by making every effort possible to 
ensure that this programming is not censored on the 
Internet or through electronic interference of radio 
and TV broadcasting; 
(5) expresses sympathy to the families of all 
those who suffered due to the Nuremberg laws and 
during the Holocaust; 
(6) expresses appreciation to governments, 
groups, and individuals that will appropriately mark 
these anniversaries, and work to perpetuate the re-
membrance of Nazi anti-Semitism and the Holo-
caust, and to promote inter-ethnic and interreligious 
reconciliation; 
(7) appreciates the role of the Holy See in com-
bating religious intolerance and religious discrimina-
tion and acknowledges the role of Nostra Aetate in 
fostering interreligious dialogue; and 
(8) condemns all forms of anti-Semitic abuses 
that are ongoing throughout the world, whether 
committed by governments or by other persons or 
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groups, particularly in the forms of denying or mini-
mizing the Holocaust and other crimes of Nazi Ger-
many. 
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