IV 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 813 
Recognizing the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz 
concentration camp. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 27, 2020 
Ms. MENG (for herself, Mr. DEUTCH, Mr. ZELDIN, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. 
HIGGINS of New York, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. PAPPAS, 
Mr. ROSE of New York, Ms. NORTON, Mr. GARAMENDI, Ms. STEVENS, 
Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. GALLEGO, Mr. HASTINGS, Ms. CLARKE 
of New York, Ms. WILD, Ms. PORTER, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. LAR-
SEN of Washington, Mr. YARMUTH, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. VEASEY, Mr. 
WEBER
of Texas, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. COX
of California, Ms. 
BROWNLEY
of California, Mr. DANNY
K. DAVIS
of Illinois, Mr. 
CICILLINE, Mr. SUOZZI, Mr. CISNEROS, Mr. MORELLE, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. 
GABBARD, Mr. NADLER, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. TRONE, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. 
FOSTER, Mr. RUSH, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. SWALWELL of 
California, Mr. KHANNA, Ms. DEAN, Mr. COHEN, Mr. TED LIEU of Cali-
fornia, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. COSTA, Mrs. LOWEY, Ms. OMAR, 
Miss RICE of New York, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. CLEAVER, 
Mr. DELGADO, Ms. SHALALA, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Mr. 
PAYNE, Mrs. MCBATH, Mrs. MURPHY of Florida, Ms. BONAMICI, Mrs. 
LEE of Nevada, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Ms. DAVIDS of Kansas, Mr. 
DIAZ-BALART, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Ms. 
MUCARSEL-POWELL, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. SOTO, Mr. CUELLAR, Ms. 
OCASIO-CORTEZ, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. KUSTOFF of Tennessee, 
Mrs. HAYES, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. SIRES, Mr. KEATING, Mr. 
CASE, Mr. ENGEL, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Mrs. AXNE, Mr. BRINDISI, Mr. 
HIMES, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. MALINOWSKI, Mr. CLAY, Ms. CRAIG, Ms. SCHA-
KOWSKY, Mrs. TORRES of California, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. FRANKEL, 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. PASCRELL, Mrs. LURIA, Mr. SMITH of 
Washington, Mr. STANTON, Ms. ADAMS, Mr. LEVIN of Michigan, Mr. 
JEFFRIES, Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York, and Ms. TLAIB) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Serv-
ices, Natural Resources, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
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RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the 
Auschwitz concentration camp. 
Whereas, on January 27, 1945, Allied troops entered the 
Auschwitz complex concentration camp and liberated the 
more than 7,000 still-living prisoners; 
Whereas during World War II, the Nazi regime, its allies, 
and its collaborators systematically killed approximately 
6,000,000 Jews, including 1,500,000 million Jewish chil-
dren, as well as millions of others including Roma, men-
tally or physically disabled people, gay men, political pris-
oners and resistance members, Poles and other Slavs, 
and Soviet prisoners of war; 
Whereas two-thirds of European Jewry and one-third of 
world Jewry were killed as a result of Nazi persecution 
during World War II; 
Whereas at least 1,300,000 people were deported to Ausch-
witz between 1940 and 1945, approximately 1,100,000 of 
whom were murdered; 
Whereas thousands of prisoners at Auschwitz were selected 
by Josef Mengele and other Auschwitz physicians to be 
the victims of cruel and unethical medical experimen-
tation; 
Whereas in the days leading up to the liberation of Ausch-
witz, tens of thousands of prisoners were forced to par-
ticipate in so-called ‘‘death marches’’ from Auschwitz; 
Whereas the Nazis murdered their victims in Auschwitz by 
systematically using such methods as gas chambers, mass 
executions, hanging, starvation, and torture, by sub-
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jecting them to forced labor, and by denying them even 
the most basic medical treatment for disease or infection; 
Whereas according to The Conference on Jewish Material 
Claims Against Germany, there are over 80,000 Holo-
caust survivors living in the United States and over a 
third live below the poverty line; 
Whereas there has been an increase in the number and inten-
sity of antisemitic incidents around the world and in the 
United States, including the single deadliest attack 
against the Jewish community in the history of the 
United States at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pitts-
burgh in 2018 and a series of attacks against Jews 
across the country, which has increased feelings of vul-
nerability among Jewish communities; and 
Whereas antisemites in America and around the world con-
tinue to invoke Nazi ideology and use symbols such as 
the swastika and other fascist imagery to vandalize syna-
gogues and Jewish institutions; Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) honors the memory of the liberation of 
Auschwitz; 
(2) memorializes the 6,000,000 Jewish victims 
of the Nazi regime, the millions of others who were 
systematically killed by the Nazis and their collabo-
rators during World War II, and the over 1,000,000 
victims at Auschwitz; 
(3) expresses gratitude to the members of the 
Allied forces who liberated Auschwitz and the U.S. 
Armed Forces and the forces of Allied nations who 
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risked their lives to liberate many other Nazi camps 
and sites of incarceration; 
(4) honors the survivors who have traveled 
around the world to share their personal and painful 
stories in order to ensure that the lessons of the 
Holocaust serve as a warning to future generations; 
(5) commemorates the role that Holocaust me-
morials like the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 
play in implementing educational lessons about the 
Holocaust, as well as the genocides that have come 
after, and about ways to prevent future genocides 
and other atrocities; 
(6) encourages Federal and local social services 
agencies to support Holocaust survivors who live in 
poverty; 
(7) reaffirms its support for educational efforts 
that teach current and future generations about the 
Holocaust; and 
(8) urges all Federal agencies, and the Amer-
ican people, to commit to addressing unchecked in-
tolerance and prejudice, including racial, ethnic, or 
religious biases in order to improve efforts to iden-
tify and combat antisemitism and other forms of 
bigotry and intolerance. 
Æ 
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