IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 49 
Honoring the victims of the Holocaust, commending countries and organiza-
tions for marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, 
and expressing the commitment of the House of Representatives to 
strengthen the fight against anti-Semitism, bigotry, and intolerance. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 26, 2015 
Mr. DEUTCH (for himself, Mr. ENGEL, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. 
ROSKAM, and Mr. ISRAEL) submitted the following resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the 
Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Honoring the victims of the Holocaust, commending coun-
tries and organizations for marking the 70th anniversary 
of the liberation of Auschwitz, and expressing the com-
mitment of the House of Representatives to strengthen 
the fight against anti-Semitism, bigotry, and intolerance. 
Whereas, during World War II, the Nazi regime and its col-
laborators systematically murdered 6,000,000 Jews and 
millions of other individuals; 
Whereas more than 60 percent of the Jewish population in 
Europe before World War II was murdered by Nazi Ger-
many and its collaborators; 
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Whereas the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, which 
included a killing center at Birkenau, was the largest 
camp complex established by the Nazi regime; 
Whereas, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial 
Museum, at least 1,300,000 people were deported to 
Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945, of whom 1,100,000 
were murdered; 
Whereas at least 960,000 of the 1,100,000 murdered people 
were Jewish; 
Whereas the Nazi SS also deported to Auschwitz hundreds of 
thousands of people whom the German Security Police 
deemed to be inferior, dangerous, or undesirable, includ-
ing Roma and Sinti, people with disabilities, Poles, Soviet 
civilians and prisoners of war, Afro-Germans, Jehovah’s 
Witnesses, homosexuals, and other groups; 
Whereas the Nazis murdered their victims by systematically 
using such methods as mass executions, hanging, gas 
chambers, starvation, and torture, by subjecting them to 
forced labor and unethical medical experimentation, and 
by denying them even the most basic medical treatment 
for disease or infection; 
Whereas, on January 27, 1945, the Nazi concentration camp 
complex at Auschwitz, including Birkenau, was liberated 
by the Soviet army; 
Whereas, on November 1, 2005, the United Nations General 
Assembly passed Resolution 60/7, which designated Jan-
uary 27th, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, 
as annual International Day of Commemoration, and 
which called on the world to remember the Holocaust and 
honor the victims of the Holocaust era; 
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Whereas many countries around the world mark respective 
national Holocaust remembrance days on January 27, in-
cluding Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Swe-
den, and the United Kingdom; 
Whereas there has been an increase in the number and inten-
sity of anti-Semitic incidents around the world, and Jew-
ish communities are feeling vulnerable in the face of 
growing anti-Jewish hostility and experiencing targeted, 
and sometimes deadly, attacks; and 
Whereas the United States Department of State expressed its 
concern for the rise in anti-Semitism in Europe and 
around the world and referenced numerous polls offering 
evidence to the claims: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) memorializes the liberation of Auschwitz; 
(2) honors the victims of Auschwitz and other 
Nazi concentration camps and killing centers, and 
all other victims of Nazi crimes and aggression; 
(3) honors the efforts of the United States 
Armed Forces, the armed forces of Allied nations, 
underground resistance fighters, and other persons 
who helped defeat the Nazi regime during World 
War II and liberate Auschwitz and other Nazi 
camps; 
(4) expresses gratitude to those persons and en-
tities hosting and participating in events commemo-
rating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of 
Auschwitz, which includes a United States Presi-
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dential delegation attending an event in Oswiecim, 
Poland; 
(5) reaffirms its support for educational efforts 
to teach current and future generations about the 
Holocaust, to preserve the memory of those mur-
dered, and to prevent any future genocide; and 
(6) urges all countries to implement educational 
lessons about the Holocaust to explain how un-
checked intolerance and prejudice, including racial, 
ethnic, or religious biases, has led to, and could in 
the future lead to, atrocities as happened during the 
Holocaust, and to improve efforts to identify and 
combat anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry 
and intolerance. 
Æ 
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