IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 87 
Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz 
extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and International Holocaust 
Remembrance Day. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 31, 2025 
Ms. MENG (for herself, Mr. LAWLER, Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida, and Mr. 
BACON) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of 
the Auschwitz extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Po-
land and International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 
Whereas United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/7 
(2005) designated January 27 of each year as an Inter-
national Day of Commemoration in memory of victims of 
the Holocaust; 
Whereas, during World War II, the Nazi regime and its col-
laborators systematically murdered 6,000,000 Jews and 
millions of other individuals; 
Whereas the Auschwitz extermination camp complex in Nazi- 
occupied Poland, which included a killing center at 
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•HRES 87 IH 
Birkenau, was the largest death camp complex estab-
lished by the Nazi regime; 
Whereas, on January 27, 1945, the Auschwitz extermination 
camp was liberated by Allied Forces, after almost 5 years 
of murder, rape, and torture at the camp; 
Whereas nearly 1,300,000 innocent civilians were deported to 
Auschwitz from their homes across Eastern and Western 
Europe, particularly from Hungary, Poland, and France; 
Whereas nearly 1,100,000 innocent civilians were murdered 
at the Auschwitz extermination camp between 1940 and 
1945; 
Whereas at least 960,000 of the nearly 1,100,000 murdered 
people were Jewish; 
Whereas the more than 100,000 other victims who perished 
at Auschwitz included non-Jewish Poles, Romani people, 
Soviet civilians and prisoners of war, Afro-Germans, Je-
hovah’s Witnesses, people with disabilities, gay men and 
women, and other ethnic minorities; 
Whereas these innocent civilians were subjected to torture, 
forced labor, starvation, rape, medical experiments, and 
separation from loved ones; 
Whereas the names of many of these innocent individuals 
who perished have been lost forever; 
Whereas the Auschwitz extermination camp symbolizes the 
extraordinary brutality of the Holocaust; 
Whereas the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 
serves as our Nation’s memorial to the victims of the 
Holocaust and teaches the history and lessons of the Hol-
ocaust to individuals from all walks of life in the United 
States; 
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•HRES 87 IH 
Whereas the people of the United States must never forget 
the genocide and terrible crimes against humanity com-
mitted at the Auschwitz extermination camp; 
Whereas the people of the United States must educate future 
generations to promote understanding of the dangers of 
intolerance in order to prevent similar injustices, includ-
ing acts of violent anti-Semitism, from happening again; 
Whereas there are only approximately 220,000 Holocaust 
survivors who are still living and it is more important 
now than ever to share their collective histories and sto-
ries; 
Whereas, in recent years, there has been an increase in the 
number and intensity of anti-Semitic incidents in the 
United States and around the world; 
Whereas, since the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack 
in Israel, there have been more than 10,000 anti-Semitic 
incidents in the United States; 
Whereas hate crime statistics collected by the Federal Bureau 
of Investigation demonstrate a 63-percent increase in 
anti-Semitic incidents in the United States from 2022 to 
2023; 
Whereas, in 2018, the United States experienced the single 
deadliest attack against the Jewish community in the his-
tory of the United States with the murder of 11 individ-
uals at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania; and 
Whereas, especially in a period of rising anti-Semitism, com-
memoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermi-
nation camp will instill in all people of the United States 
a greater awareness of the Holocaust and knowledge of 
the horrors brought upon by the systematic murder of 
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•HRES 87 IH 
6,000,000 Jews and millions of other innocent individuals 
by the Nazi regime: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) calls on all people of the United States to 
remember the 1,100,000 innocent victims murdered 
at the Auschwitz extermination camp as part of the 
Holocaust, the 6,000,000 Jews killed during the 
Holocaust, and all of the victims of the Nazi reign 
of terror; 
(2) honors the legacy of the survivors of the 
Holocaust and of the Auschwitz extermination camp; 
(3) calls on the people of the United States to 
continue to work toward tolerance, peace, and jus-
tice and to continue to work to end all genocide and 
persecution; and 
(4) recommits to combating all forms of anti- 
Semitism. 
Æ 
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