[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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