January 28, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 17 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

[Extensions of Remarks]
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          RECOGNIZING INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

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                            HON. STEVE COHEN

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, January 28, 2019

  Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize International 
Holocaust Remembrance Day which marks the anniversary of the 1945 
liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. I join with people around the world 
to commemorate the millions of lives lost to Nazism, especially the six 
million Jewish lives lost.
   It is imperative that we remember the loss of those six million 
people and, also, the people who survived and those who helped them 
survive. Of the 1.3 million people taken to Auschwitz, an estimated 1.1 
million were killed.
   In 1984, as a young State Senator, I sponsored legislation to create 
the Tennessee Holocaust Commission, one of the first such state 
Commissions. I'm very proud of the work of the Tennessee Holocaust 
Commission, much of which is educating Tennessee teachers so they can 
teach children about the Holocaust.
   As we remember the lives lost, we should also remember those who 
survived and, also, the military that liberated the camps and the 
hundreds of thousands of righteous gentiles who risked their own lives 
to save Jews. The Holocaust showed that a society that tolerates 
antisemitism is susceptible to other forms of racism, hatred, and 
oppression.
   I urge all Americans visiting Washington to visit the U.S. Holocaust 
Museum and I urge all Tennesseans and those visiting Nashville to go to 
the Memorial on the State Capitol Grounds, situated alongside six cedar 
trees representing six million people, to remember and to understand 
why we must always remember and stand up against antisemitism, racism, 
hatred and oppression wherever and whenever it occurs.

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