PRINTER'S NO. 1441
No. 60 Session of 1981
INTRODUCED BY WAMBACH, IRVIS, KOWALYSHYN, MANDERINO, HAYES,
GREENFIELD, PIEVSKY, ITKIN, RAPPAPORT, TELEK, LEVIN, BELOFF,
COHEN, BERSON, CESSAR, BROWN, RITTER, RYBAK, WOZNIAK,
STEWART, JACKSON, SHUPNIK, HALUSKA, EMERSON, DEAL, EVANS,
J. D. WILLIAMS, WIGGINS, PUCCIARELLI, BORSKI, ZWIKL, GRUITZA,
LLOYD, DeWEESE, MANMILLER, DININNI, PICCOLA, KUKOVICH,
CAWLEY, BLAUM, D. R. WRIGHT, LAUGHLIN, PETRONE, HORGOS,
MISCEVICH, DUFFY, WARGO AND BURNS, APRIL 27, 1981
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, APRIL 27, 1981
In the House of Representatives, April 27, 1981
1 WHEREAS, The holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic
2 extermination of more than 10,000,000 people living in Europe
3 including 6,000,000 Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators as
4 a dominant act of the state during World War II in order to
5 attain their goal of world supremacy; and
6 WHEREAS, The holocaust was a crime unique in the annals of
7 human history, different not only in the quantity of violence,
8 but in its manner and purpose as a mass criminal enterprise
9 organized by the state against defenseless civilians; and
10 WHEREAS, This genocide had been unprecedented in human
11 history and masked an all-pervasive government policy unaffected
12 by territorial or economic advantage and unchecked by moral or
13 religious constraints; and
14 WHEREAS, There exists a moral imperative to remember the
1 holocaust, necessary to protect against the evil of
2 indifference, so history will not be repeated; therefore be it
3 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
4 designates May 1, 1981 to commemorate the holocaust and to
5 underscore the need for continuing vigilance of our institutions
6 and ourselves, so evil can be overcome, humanity is protected
7 and democracy is strengthened by the rule of morality and law.
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