PRINTER'S NO. 3767
No. 346 Session of 1992
INTRODUCED BY JOSEPHS, BELARDI, TRELLO, PERZEL, COLAIZZO,
HAYDEN, HARPER, MELIO, NYCE, MUNDY, McGEEHAN, DONATUCCI,
NAHILL, M. N. WRIGHT, KOSINSKI, PISTELLA, FREEMAN, DeLUCA,
TIGUE, HERSHEY, RIEGER, JOHNSON, HAYES, SALOOM, MIHALICH,
WOZNIAK, COHEN, KUKOVICH, LINTON, CESSAR, BISHOP, FAIRCHILD,
ULIANA, KING, BUNT, ARGALL, BELFANTI, GLADECK, FAJT, NAILOR,
RUDY, ITKIN, LEVDANSKY, WILLIAMS, HARLEY, STABACK, BATTISTO
AND HAGARTY, JUNE 10, 1992
INTRODUCED, JUNE 10, 1992
A RESOLUTION
1 Proclaiming June 12, 1992, as "Anne Frank Day" in this
2 Commonwealth.
3 WHEREAS, There is an exacerbation of anti-Semitism, racial
4 and interethnic intolerance and the scapegoating of the ills of
5 society upon minorities; and
6 WHEREAS, The story of Anne Frank and the words of her diary
7 educate all of us, particularly the young, to the dangers of
8 intolerance, hate and discrimination; and
9 WHEREAS, The Diary of Anne Frank, the entries of a Jewish
10 teenage girl forced into hiding from the Nazi occupiers of
11 Holland, is a message of hope and faith in common humanity, a
12 message of the responsibility of ordinary people to aid all
13 those who are oppressed; and
14 WHEREAS, This teenager's short life conveys a message needed
15 today to strengthen people who strive to create and maintain a
1 just and humanitarian world; and
2 WHEREAS, The legacy of Anne Frank consists of the belief in
3 tolerance, political and religious pluralism and human rights;
4 and
5 WHEREAS, Anne Frank was born June 12, 1929; therefore be it
6 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives proclaim June 12,
7 1992, as "Anne Frank Day" in this Commonwealth in recognition of
8 her example of the triumph of the human spirit.
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