IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 39 
Commending countries and organizations for marking the 60th anniversary 
of the liberation of Auschwitz and urging a strengthening of the fight 
against racism, intolerance, bigotry, prejudice, discrimination, and anti- 
Semitism. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 25, 2005 
Mr. LANTOS (for himself, Mr. HYDE, Ms. PELOSI, Mr. BLUNT, Mr. HOYER, 
Mr. CANTOR, Mr. TANCREDO, Mr. ACKERMAN, Ms. BERKLEY, Mr. BER-
MAN, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. 
CARDIN, Mr. CARDOZA, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. CHANDLER, Mr. CROWLEY, 
Mrs. JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. DENT, Mr. DICKS, Mr. EMANUEL, 
Mr. ENGEL, Mr. ETHERIDGE, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. FILNER, Mr. 
FITZPATRICK of Pennsylvania, Mr. GALLEGLY, Mr. GENE GREEN of 
Texas, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. ISRAEL, Ms. KAP-
TUR, Mr. KIRK, Mr. LEACH, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mrs. 
MALONEY, Ms. MCCOLLUM
of Minnesota, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. 
MCDERMOTT, Mr. MCNULTY, Mr. MEEK of Florida, Mr. MENENDEZ, 
Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Mr. OWENS, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. 
PAYNE, Mr. PENCE, Mr. PITTS, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. ROTHMAN, Mr. 
ROYCE, Mr. SAXTON, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SCHIFF, Ms. SCHWARTZ of 
Pennsylvania, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, 
Mrs. TAUSCHER, Mr. TERRY, Mr. UDALL of New Mexico, Mr. VAN 
HOLLEN, Mr. VISCLOSKY, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. 
WEINER, Mr. WELLER, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. WYNN, Mr. BURGESS, Mr. 
CALVERT, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. HONDA, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of 
Texas, Mr. KING of New York, Mr. SCHWARZ of Michigan, and Ms. WAT-
SON) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on International Relations 
JANUARY 25, 2005 
The Committee on International Relations discharged; considered and agreed 
to
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RESOLUTION 
Commending countries and organizations for marking the 
60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and urg-
ing a strengthening of the fight against racism, intoler-
ance, bigotry, prejudice, discrimination, and anti-Semi-
tism. 
Whereas on January 27, 1945, the Nazi concentration camp 
at Auschwitz, including Birkenau and other related 
camps near the Polish city of Oswiecim, was liberated by 
elements of the Soviet Army under the command of Field 
Marshal Ivan Konev; 
Whereas, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial 
Museum, at a minimum 1,300,000 people were deported 
to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945, and of these, at 
least 1,100,000 were murdered at that camp; 
Whereas an estimated 6,000,000 Jews, more than 60 percent 
of the pre-World War II Jewish population of Europe, 
were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators at 
Auschwitz and elsewhere in Europe; 
Whereas in addition, hundreds of thousands of civilians of 
Polish, Roma, and other nationalities, including in par-
ticular handicapped and retarded individuals, homo-
sexuals, political, intellectual, labor, and religious leaders, 
all of whom the Nazis considered ‘‘undesirable’’, as well 
as Soviet and other prisoners of war, perished at Ausch-
witz and elsewhere in Europe; 
Whereas the complex of concentration and death camps at 
Auschwitz has come to symbolize the brutality and inhu-
manity of the Holocaust;
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Whereas on January 24, 2005, the United Nations General 
Assembly, in response to a resolution proposed by Aus-
tralia, Canada, New Zealand, Russia, the United States, 
and the European Union, convened its first-ever special 
session marking the liberation of Auschwitz and other 
concentration camps on the 60th anniversary of that 
event; 
Whereas on January 27, 2005, the Government of Poland 
will host a state ceremony at Auschwitz/Oswiecim, Po-
land, to mark the anniversary of the liberation of the 
camps in which the Presidents of Israel, Germany, Po-
land, and Russia, and the Vice President of the United 
States, and leaders of many other countries will partici-
pate; 
Whereas January 27 of each year is the official Holocaust 
Memorial Day in many European countries, including 
Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Sweden, and 
the United Kingdom, and has been designated by Israel 
as a National Day to Combat Anti-Semitism; and 
Whereas the Department of State in the Report on Global 
Anti-Semitism transmitted to Congress in December 
2004 noted that ‘‘anti-Semitism in Europe increased sig-
nificantly in recent years’’, ‘‘Holocaust denial and Holo-
caust minimization efforts’’ have found increasingly overt 
acceptance in a number of Middle Eastern countries, and 
anti-Semitism has appeared ‘‘in countries where histori-
cally or currently there are few or even no Jews’’: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recalls with gratitude the sacrifices made by 
Allied soldiers, as well as partisans and underground
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fighters, whose service and dedication resulted in the 
defeat of the Nazi regime and the liberation of 
Auschwitz and other concentration camps during 
World War II; 
(2) expresses gratitude to those individuals and 
organizations that assisted and cared for the sur-
vivors of Nazi brutality and helped those survivors 
establish new lives; 
(3) commends those countries that are marking 
the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, 
as well as the United Nations General Assembly and 
other international organizations, for honoring the 
victims of the Holocaust and using this tragic anni-
versary to increase awareness of the Holocaust; 
(4) urges all countries and peoples to strength-
en their efforts to fight against racism, intolerance, 
bigotry, prejudice, discrimination, and anti-Semi-
tism; and 
(5) urges governments and educators through-
out the world to teach the lessons of the Holocaust 
in order that future generations will understand that 
racial, ethnic, and religious intolerance and prejudice 
can lead to the genocide carried out in camps such 
as Auschwitz. 
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