January 30, 2020 - Issue: Vol. 166, No. 20 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 2nd Session

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        COMMEMORATING 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF DEATH CAMPS

  (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ENGEL. Madam Speaker, last week, I went with Speaker Pelosi and 
some other Members of Congress to Jerusalem, where we had the 
commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the end of the death camps. 
Many of our colleagues went to Auschwitz-Birkenau to look at the 
concentration camps.
  Some of my colleagues have said this, but I think it is important 
that each one of us says it: We have to raise our voices loudly and 
clearly and monitor the situation so these types of things don't happen 
again to any people.
  First of all, anti-Semitism is rearing its ugly head, and certainly 
we need to do everything we can to stop the scourge of anti-Semitism. 
We cannot treat people the way the Jewish population was treated during 
the Second World War, and America must always be in the forefront of 
equal rights and standing up against injustice.
  I wanted to take the time to say that participating in that 
conference was really emotional for me, and I think that we should 
always say: Never again will we stand idly by and allow anti-Semitism 
to rear its ugly head. Never again will we stand idly by and allow any 
group of people to be killed and slaughtered.
  So, never again.

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