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This resolution commemorates January 27, 2025, as the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp and as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The resolution also expresses that the Senate (1) calls on the people of the United States to continue working to end all genocide and persecution, and (2) recommits to combating all forms of anti-Semitism.

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 40 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 40

 Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz 
extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and International Holocaust 
                            Remembrance Day.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 27, 2025

 Ms. Rosen (for herself, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Booker, Mr. Cramer, and Mr. 
 Schumer) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and 
                               agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz 
extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and International Holocaust 
                            Remembrance Day.

Whereas United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/7 (2005) designated 
        January 27 of each year as an International Day of Commemoration in 
        memory of victims of the Holocaust;
Whereas, during World War II, the Nazi regime and its collaborators 
        systematically murdered 6,000,000 Jews and millions of other 
        individuals;
Whereas the Auschwitz extermination camp complex in Nazi-occupied Poland, which 
        included a killing center at Birkenau, was the largest death camp 
        complex established by the Nazi regime;
Whereas, on January 27, 1945, the Auschwitz extermination camp was liberated by 
        Allied Forces, after almost 5 years of murder, rape, and torture at the 
        camp;
Whereas nearly 1,300,000 innocent civilians were deported to Auschwitz from 
        their homes across Eastern and Western Europe, particularly from 
        Hungary, Poland, and France;
Whereas nearly 1,100,000 innocent civilians were murdered at the Auschwitz 
        extermination camp between 1940 and 1945;
Whereas at least 960,000 of the nearly 1,100,000 murdered people were Jewish;
Whereas the more than 100,000 other victims who perished at Auschwitz included 
        non-Jewish Poles, Romani people, Soviet civilians and prisoners of war, 
        Afro-Germans, Jehovah's Witnesses, people with disabilities, gay men and 
        women, and other ethnic minorities;
Whereas these innocent civilians were subjected to torture, forced labor, 
        starvation, rape, medical experiments, and separation from loved ones;
Whereas the names of many of these innocent individuals who perished have been 
        lost forever;
Whereas the Auschwitz extermination camp symbolizes the extraordinary brutality 
        of the Holocaust;
Whereas the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum serves as our Nation's 
        memorial to the victims of the Holocaust and teaches the history and 
        lessons of the Holocaust to individuals from all walks of life in the 
        United States;
Whereas the people of the United States must never forget the genocide and 
        terrible crimes against humanity committed at the Auschwitz 
        extermination camp;
Whereas the people of the United States must educate future generations to 
        promote understanding of the dangers of intolerance in order to prevent 
        similar injustices, including acts of violent antisemitism, from 
        happening again;
Whereas there are only approximately 220,000 Holocaust survivors who are still 
        living and it is more important now than ever to share their collective 
        histories and stories;
Whereas, in recent years, there has been an increase in the number and intensity 
        of antisemitic incidents in the United States and around the world;
Whereas, since the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, there have 
        been more than 10,000 antisemitic incidents in the United States;
Whereas hate crime statistics collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
        demonstrate a 63 percent increase in antisemitic incidents in the United 
        States from 2022 to 2023;
Whereas, in 2018, the United States experienced the single deadliest attack 
        against the Jewish community in the history of the United States with 
        the murder of 11 individuals at the Tree of Life synagogue in 
        Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and
Whereas, especially in a period of rising antisemitism, commemoration of the 
        liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp will instill in all 
        people of the United States a greater awareness of the Holocaust and 
        knowledge of the horrors brought upon by the systematic murder of 
        6,000,000 Jews and millions of other innocent individuals by the Nazi 
        regime: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) commemorates January 27, 2025, as the 80th anniversary 
        of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp by Allied 
        Forces during World War II and as International Holocaust 
        Remembrance Day;
            (2) calls on all people of the United States to remember 
        the 1,100,000 innocent victims murdered at the Auschwitz 
        extermination camp as part of the Holocaust, the 6,000,000 Jews 
        killed during the Holocaust, and all of the victims of the Nazi 
        reign of terror;
            (3) honors the legacy of the survivors of the Holocaust and 
        of the Auschwitz extermination camp;
            (4) calls on the people of the United States to continue to 
        work toward tolerance, peace, and justice and to continue to 
        work to end all genocide and persecution; and
            (5) recommits to combatting all forms of antisemitism.
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