Title: Recognizing the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
This resolution commemorates the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp and honors survivors of the Holocaust, as well as members of the Allied forces who liberated Auschwitz. The resolution urges the United States to improve efforts to combat anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry and intolerance.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 813 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 813

  Recognizing the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz 
                          concentration camp.


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                    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. Larsen 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 
 California, 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. 
    Garcia 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. Schakowsky, Mrs. Torres of California, Ms. 
  Velazquez, 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 Services, Natural Resources, and the Judiciary, for a period to 
      be subsequently 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 children, as well as millions of others including Roma, 
        mentally or physically disabled people, gay men, political prisoners 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 Auschwitz 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 experimentation;
Whereas in the days leading up to the liberation of Auschwitz, tens of thousands 
        of prisoners were forced to participate 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 subjecting 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 Holocaust 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 intensity 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 Pittsburgh in 2018 
        and a series of attacks against Jews across the country, which has 
        increased feelings of vulnerability among Jewish communities; and
Whereas antisemites in America and around the world continue to invoke Nazi 
        ideology and use symbols such as the swastika and other fascist imagery 
        to vandalize synagogues 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 collaborators 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 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 memorials 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 American people, to 
        commit to addressing unchecked intolerance and prejudice, 
        including racial, ethnic, or religious biases in order to 
        improve efforts to identify and combat antisemitism and other 
        forms of bigotry and intolerance.
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