IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 283 
Honoring the life, achievements, and contributions of Rabbi Charles H. 
Rosenzveig. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 24, 2009 
Mr. PETERS (for himself, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. DINGELL, Mr. HOEKSTRA, Mr. 
UPTON, Mr. STUPAK, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. EHLERS, Mr. ROGERS of Michi-
gan, Mrs. MILLER of Michigan, Mr. SCHAUER, Mr. CAMP, Mr. WAXMAN, 
Mr. WEXLER, Mr. KLEIN of Florida, Mr. KIRK, Ms. GIFFORDS, Mr. 
ADLER of New Jersey, Mr. BERMAN, Ms. BERKLEY, Mr. HODES, Mr. 
FILNER, Mr. CROWLEY, Ms. KILROY, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. YARMUTH, Mr. 
COHEN, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. NADLER of New 
York, Mr. MOORE
of Kansas, Ms. HARMAN, Mr. KAGEN, Ms. 
SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. POLIS of Colorado, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. 
GRAYSON, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Mr. SESTAK, Mrs. 
DAHLKEMPER, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. CONNOLLY of 
Virginia, Mr. ACKERMAN, and Mr. MILLER of North Carolina) submitted 
the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Honoring the life, achievements, and contributions of Rabbi 
Charles H. Rosenzveig. 
Whereas Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzveig, Holocaust survivor, 
scholar, teacher, and founder of the Nation’s first free- 
standing Holocaust Memorial Center, passed away on 
December 11, 2008, which corresponds to the 14th of 
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Kislev, 5769 of the Hebrew calendar, and was buried in 
Jerusalem, Israel; 
Whereas Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzveig was beloved by 
friends, family, and congregants and is survived by his 
wife Helen and four children, Martin Rosenzveig, Rabbi 
Ely 
Rosenzveig, 
Judy 
Rosenzveig, 
and 
Adina 
Novogrodsky, and ten grandchildren; 
Whereas Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzvieg was born on November 
13, 1920, in Ostrovitz, Poland, to Yente and Eliezer 
Lippa Rosenzveig; 
Whereas Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzvieg was educated in the 
Jewish cheder and prestigious Bialystok Yeshiva, and 
studied the laws of his faith concerning the importance 
of good deeds and social justice, and developed excep-
tional knowledge of the Talmud, the rabbinic interpreta-
tion of Jewish Law; 
Whereas Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzvieg endured and bore wit-
ness to the horrific atrocities of the Holocaust, the 
Shoah, and members of his immediate and extended fam-
ily perished at the hands of the Nazis; 
Whereas Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzvieg managed to escape his 
Nazi persecutors, fled from Poland to the Soviet Union, 
and then to Kazakhstan, before immigrating to the 
United States, settling at first in New York City in 1947; 
Whereas Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzvieg attended the world-re-
nowned Yeshiva University in Manhattan and was or-
dained in 1951 as a rabbi, leader, and teacher in the 
Jewish community; 
Whereas, upon receiving the rabbinic designation, Rabbi 
Charles H. Rosenzvieg led Congregation Mt. Sinai in 
Port Huron, Michigan, where he served as spiritual lead-
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er until 1993, when he left the pulpit to devote his entire 
energy and spirit to the Holocaust Memorial Center, a 
project he had envisioned since his escape from Europe; 
Whereas the Holocaust Memorial Center, established in 1984 
at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield, 
Michigan, became the Nation’s first-free standing Holo-
caust Memorial Center; 
Whereas the Holocaust Memorial Center is a monument to 
the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, and an edu-
cational institution with a mission to teach the lesson of 
tolerance to future generations, welcoming millions of 
visitors from around the world wishing to learn about the 
horrors of the Holocaust in order to prevent such a trag-
edy from occurring again; 
Whereas other Holocaust centers around the country have 
been built, many modeled on Rabbi Charles H. 
Rosenzveig’s original Holocaust Memorial Center; 
Whereas Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzvieg traveled and spoke ex-
tensively to raise awareness and grow the Holocaust Me-
morial Center, allowing the Holocaust Memorial Center 
to move from its original home in West Bloomfield, 
Michigan, to a large, state-of-the-art museum in Farm-
ington Hills, Michigan, that also houses the Museum of 
European Heritage and the International Institute of the 
Righteous; 
Whereas it was Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzvieg’s vision for the 
new center to enlighten future generations about the hor-
rors of the Holocaust and nourish a social consciousness 
whereby the ‘‘righteous acts of the few become the stand-
ard of the many’’; and 
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Whereas Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzvieg succeeded in providing 
the tools necessary for the message of ‘‘Never Again’’ to 
be understood by future generations: Now, therefore, be 
it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) mourns the passing of Rabbi Charles H. 
Rosenzveig and pauses to remember the 6,000,000 
Jews killed in the Holocaust and the more than 
11,000,000 people murdered in World War II; and 
(2) honors the life and accomplishments of 
Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzveig as a scholar, teacher, 
rabbi, and Founder and Director of the Holocaust 
Memorial Center. 
Æ 
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